GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-hhjv-jq77-cmvx zeptoclaw has Android device shell blocklist bypass via argument permutation
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- zeptoclaw
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-05
Affected packages
• crates.io zeptoclaw: < 0.6.2 → fixed in 0.6.2
Description
Summary
zeptoclaw implements a blocklist to prevent dangerous commands running in android device shell, but this blocklist has several blocked commands with argements in the pattern literal, such as `rm -f` and `rm -rf`, this can be simply bypassed by using different orders for these arguments, such as `rm -r -f` or `rm -fr` etc.
Details
As in code src/tools/android/actions.rs#L413-L424, we can see the `rm -f` and `rm -rf` are hard coded and thus can be simply bypassed via `rm -r -f` or `rm -fr` etc.
```rust
pub async fn device_shell(adb: &AdbExecutor, cmd: &str) -> Result {
// Normalize whitespace for blocklist check
let normalized: String = cmd.split_whitespace().collect::>().join(" ");
let lower = normalized.to_lowercase();
let blocked = [
"rm -rf",
"rm -r",
"reboot",
"factory_reset",
"wipe",
"format",
"dd if=",
"mkfs",
"flash",
"fastboot",
];
for pattern in &blocked {
if lower.contains(pattern) {
return Err(ZeptoError::Tool(format!(
"Blocked dangerous command containing '{}'",
pattern
)));
}
}
```
PoC
Set up zeptoclaw with an Android tool and then run the command `rm -f -r` etc.
Impact
Unauthorized command executed in Android device.
Credit
@zpbrent
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/qhkm/zeptoclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-hhjv-jq77-cmvx web
- https://github.com/qhkm/zeptoclaw/commit/68916c3e4f3af107f11940b27854fc7ef517058b web
- https://github.com/qhkm/zeptoclaw package
- https://github.com/qhkm/zeptoclaw/blob/fe2ef07cfec5bb46b42cdd65f52b9230c03e9270/src/tools/android/actions.rs#L413-L424 web