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CVE-2022-25865: Command Injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

The package workspace-tools before 0.18.4 are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the fetchRemoteBranch(remote: string, remoteBranch: string, cwd: string) function, both the remote and remoteBranch parameters are passed to the git fetch subcommand in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

Affected products

• workspace-tools: before 0.18.4 — fixed in 0.18.4
• workspace-tools: before 0.18.4 — fixed in 0.18.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: workspace-tools 0.18.4; workspace-tools 0.18.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/microsoft/workspace-tools/commit/9bc7e65ce497f87e1f363fd47b8f802f3d3cd978
• https://github.com/microsoft/workspace-tools/pull/103
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WORKSPACETOOLS-2421201
• https://github.com/microsoft/workspace-tools/commit/9bc7e65ce497f87e1f363fd47b8f802f3d3cd978
• https://github.com/microsoft/workspace-tools/pull/103
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WORKSPACETOOLS-2421201

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