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CVE-2026-104859: Nx: OS command injection in the @nx/docker release pipeline

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-02 · updated 2026-10-05
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Nx is a monorepo solution for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. From 21.4.0 until 22.7.8 and from 23.0.0 until 23.1.1, the @nx/docker release pipeline builds docker tag, image lookup, and docker push invocations as shell command strings. The release.docker.repositoryName and registryUrl configuration values are interpolated into those strings and passed to /bin/sh -c, allowing shell syntax in untrusted Nx configuration to execute during nx release version or nx release publish. A pull request or repository configuration change can therefore execute commands with the release job's privileges and expose registry credentials or cloud tokens, and dry-run publishing does not prevent the vulnerable pre-check command from executing. This issue is fixed in versions 22.7.8 and 23.1.1.

Affected products

• nrwl nx: from 21.4.0, < 22.7.8; from 23.0.0, < 23.1.1

References

• https://github.com/nrwl/nx/commit/6d60eed061f050e0d5af509a1f5a07c707f09865
• https://github.com/nrwl/nx/commit/b587441fd8da28c5db37edb0826554e0060dc81b
• https://github.com/nrwl/nx/pull/36505
• https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-6vc5-vf29-ffr2

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