GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go, RubyGems
GHSA-2c47-m757-32g6 Insufficient input sanitization in ejson2env
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-48069
- Ecosystem
- Go, RubyGems
- Packages
- github.com/Shopify/ejson2env/v2, ejson2env, github.com/Shopify/ejson2env
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
- Reviewed
- 2025-05-21
Affected packages
• Go github.com/Shopify/ejson2env/v2: < 2.0.8 → fixed in 2.0.8
• RubyGems ejson2env: < 2.0.8 → fixed in 2.0.8
• Go github.com/Shopify/ejson2env: < 2.0.8 (no fix yet)
Description
Summary
The `ejson2env` tool has a vulnerability related to how it writes to `stdout`. Specifically, the tool is intended to write an export statement for environment variables and their values. However, due to inadequate output sanitization, there is a potential risk where variable names or values may include malicious content, resulting in additional unintended commands being output to `stdout`. If this output is improperly utilized in further command execution, it could lead to command injection vulnerabilities, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the host system.
Details
The vulnerability exists because environment variables are not properly sanitized during the decryption phase, which enables malicious keys or encrypted values to inject commands.
Impact
An attacker with control over `.ejson` files can inject commands in the environment where `source $(ejson2env)` or `eval ejson2env` are executed.
Mitigation
• Update to a version of `ejson2env` that sanitizes the output during decryption or
• Do not use `ejson2env` to decrypt untrusted user secrets or
• Do not evaluate or execute the direct output from `ejson2env` without removing nonprintable characters.
Credit
Thanks to security researcher Demonia for reporting this issue.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-48069 ejson2env allows users to decrypt EJSON secrets and export them as environment variables. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/Shopify/ejson2env/security/advisories/GHSA-2c47-m757-32g6 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48069 advisory
- https://github.com/Shopify/ejson2env/commit/592b3ceea967fee8b064e70983e8cec087b6d840 web
- https://github.com/Shopify/ejson2env package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ejson2env/CVE-2025-48069.yml web