Command Injection in ungit

Description

The package ungit before 1.5.20 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via argument injection. The issue occurs when calling the /api/fetch endpoint. User controlled values (remote and ref) are passed to the git fetch command. By injecting some git options it was possible to get arbitrary command execution.

Recommendation

Update the ungit package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.5.20
• Patched version(s): 1.5.20

References

• GHSA-hf8c-xr89-vfm5
• snyk.io
• CVE-2022-25766
• CWE-77
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Command Injection in ungit - ungit - CVE-2015-4130
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• Command Injection in create-choo-electron - CVE-2022-25908
• Command injection in Parse Server through prototype pollution - CVE-2022-24760

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Tags:

npm

ungit