CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-28291
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
simple-git enables running native Git commands from JavaScript. Versions up to and including 3.31.1 allow execution of arbitrary commands through Git option manipulation, bypassing safety checks meant to block dangerous options like -u and --upload-pack. The flaw stems from an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-25860, as Git's flexible option parsing allows numerous character combinations (e.g., -vu, -4u, -nu) to circumvent the regular-expression-based blocklist in the unsafe operations plugin. Due to the virtually infinite number of valid option variants that Git accepts, a complete blocklist-based mitigation may be infeasible without fully emulating Git's option parsing behavior. This issue has been fixed in version 3.32.0.
Affected configurations
• simple-git project simple-git (< 3.32.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/blob/789c13ebabcf18ebe0b3a0c88ebb4037dede42e3/simple-git/src/lib/plugins/block-unsafe-operations-plugin.ts#L26 Product
- https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/commit/1effd8e5012a5da05a9776512fac3e39b11f2d2d Patch
- https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/releases/tag/simple-git%403.32.0 Release Notes
- https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/security/advisories/GHSA-jcxm-m3jx-f287 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25860 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28291 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457930 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/security/advisories/GHSA-jcxm-m3jx-f287 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-28291.json security.access.redhat.com