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Snyk CLI affected by Command Injection vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 4, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 17, 2023

Package

npm snyk (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.996.0

Patched versions

1.996.0
npm snyk-go-plugin (npm)
< 1.19.1
1.19.1

Description

Snyk CLI before 1.996.0 allows arbitrary command execution, affecting Snyk IDE plugins and the snyk npm package. Exploitation could follow from the common practice of viewing untrusted files in the Visual Studio Code editor, for example. The original demonstration was with shell metacharacters in the vendor.json ignore field, affecting snyk-go-plugin before 1.19.1. This affects, for example, the Snyk TeamCity plugin (which does not update automatically) before 20220930.142957.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 3, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 4, 2022
Reviewed Oct 5, 2022
Last updated Aug 17, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.080%
(36th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-40764

GHSA ID

GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8

Source code

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