CVE-2022-24437: Command Injection

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-88

Description

The package git-pull-or-clone before 2.0.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to the use of the --upload-pack feature of git which is also supported for git clone. The source includes the use of the secure child process API spawn(). However, the outpath parameter passed to it may be a command-line argument to the git clone command and result in arbitrary command injection.

Affected products

git-pull-or-clone: before 2.0.2 — fixed in 2.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: git-pull-or-clone 2.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://gist.github.com/lirantal/327e9dd32686991b5a1fa6341aac2e7b
https://github.com/feross/git-pull-or-clone/commit/f9ce092be13cc32e685dfa26e7705e9c6e3108a3
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GITPULLORCLONE-2434307
https://gist.github.com/lirantal/327e9dd32686991b5a1fa6341aac2e7b
https://github.com/feross/git-pull-or-clone/commit/f9ce092be13cc32e685dfa26e7705e9c6e3108a3
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GITPULLORCLONE-2434307

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