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CVE-2021-3190

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

The async-git package before 1.13.2 for Node.js allows OS Command Injection via shell metacharacters, as demonstrated by git.reset and git.tag.

Affected products

• async-git: before 1.13.2 — fixed in 1.13.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: async-git 1.13.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4772
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/611823bd97dd41e9e8127c38066868ff9dcfa57a
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/a5f45f58941006c4cc1699609383b533d9b92c6a
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14
• https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4772
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/611823bd97dd41e9e8127c38066868ff9dcfa57a
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/a5f45f58941006c4cc1699609383b533d9b92c6a
• https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14

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