degit has a Command Injection issue

Description

Versions of the package degit before 2.8.6, from 3.0.0 and before 3.3.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to improper sanitisation of user input for git shell commands directly invoked with exec() method by _cloneWithGit() and fetchRefs() functions.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 3.0.0, < 3.3.1

  < 2.8.6**

• Patched version(s): **3.3.1

  2.8.6**

References

• GHSA-77c7-pq4r-6mcq
• security.snyk.io
• CVE-2026-11572
• CWE-77
• CWE-78
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• electerm has Command Injection via runLinux funtion - CVE-2026-41501
• Preact has JSON VNode Injection issue - CVE-2026-22028

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Tags:

npm

degit