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CVE-2020-36762: ONS Digital RAS Collection Instrument comment.yml jobs os command injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

A vulnerability was found in ONS Digital RAS Collection Instrument up to 2.0.27 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function jobs of the file .github/workflows/comment.yml. The manipulation of the argument $COMMENT_BODY leads to os command injection. Upgrading to version 2.0.28 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is dcaad2540f7d50c512ff2e031d3778dd9337db2b. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-234248.

Affected products

• ONS Digital RAS Collection Instrument: before 2.0.28 — fixed in 2.0.28

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ONS Digital RAS Collection Instrument 2.0.28. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ONSdigital/ras-collection-instrument/commit/dcaad2540f7d50c512ff2e031d3778dd9337db2b
• https://github.com/ONSdigital/ras-collection-instrument/pull/199
• https://github.com/ONSdigital/ras-collection-instrument/releases/tag/2.0.28
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.234248
• https://vuldb.com/?id.234248
• https://github.com/ONSdigital/ras-collection-instrument/commit/dcaad2540f7d50c512ff2e031d3778dd9337db2b
• https://github.com/ONSdigital/ras-collection-instrument/pull/199
• https://github.com/ONSdigital/ras-collection-instrument/releases/tag/2.0.28
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.234248
• https://vuldb.com/?id.234248

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