CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-40764
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
Snyk CLI before 1.996.0 allows arbitrary command execution, affecting Snyk IDE plugins and the snyk npm package. Exploitation could follow from the common practice of viewing untrusted files in the Visual Studio Code editor, for example. The original demonstration was with shell metacharacters in the vendor.json ignore field, affecting snyk-go-plugin before 1.19.1. This affects, for example, the Snyk TeamCity plugin (which does not update automatically) before 20220930.142957.
Affected configurations
• snyk cli (< 1.996.0)
• snyk golang cli (< 1.19.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.996.0 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/snyk/snyk-go-plugin/releases/tag/v1.19.1 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.snyk.io/hc/en-us/articles/7015908293789-CVE-2022-40764-Command-Injection-vulnerability-affecting-Snyk-CLI-versions-prior-to-1-996-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.imperva.com/blog/how-scanning-your-projects-for-security-issues-can-lead-to-remote-code-execution/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.996.0 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/snyk/snyk-go-plugin/releases/tag/v1.19.1 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.snyk.io/hc/en-us/articles/7015908293789-CVE-2022-40764-Command-Injection-vulnerability-affecting-Snyk-CLI-versions-prior-to-1-996-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.imperva.com/blog/how-scanning-your-projects-for-security-issues-can-lead-to-remote-code-execution/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory