CVE-2022-25865

HIGH

Microsoft Workspace-tools < 0.18.4 - Command Injection

Title source: rule

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.

References (3)

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/microsoft/workspace-tools/commit/9bc7e65ce497f87e1f363fd47b8f802f3d3cd978

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/microsoft/workspace-tools/pull/103

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WORKSPACETOOLS-2421201

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1

EPSS 0.0125

EPSS Percentile 79.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-88

Status published

Affected Products (2)

microsoft/workspace-tools < 0.18.4

npm/workspace-tools < 0.18.4npm

Timeline

Published May 13, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026