CVE-2020-28490

Summary

CVECVE-2020-28490
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-18 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionThe package async-git before 1.13.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection via shell meta-characters (back-ticks). For example: git.reset('atouch HACKEDb')

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Async-git Project Async-git All All All All
Application Async-git Project Async-git All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Use spawn with git to avoid shell script vulnerabilities (#14) · omrilotan/async-git@d1950a5 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Use spawn with git to avoid shell script vulnerabilities by omrilotan · Pull Request #14 · omrilotan/async-git · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Command Injection in async-git | Snyk MISC snyk.io Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Omri Lotan

LEGACY: Adar-Checkmarx

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981945 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for async-git (GHSA-6qpr-9mc5-7gch)

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