Описание
Command Injection in standard-version
GitHub Security Lab (GHSL) Vulnerability Report: GHSL-2020-111
The GitHub Security Lab team has identified a potential security vulnerability in standard-version.
Summary
The standardVersion function has a command injection vulnerability. Clients of the standard-version library are unlikely to be aware of this, so they might unwittingly write code that contains a vulnerability.
Product
Standard Version
Tested Version
Commit 2f04ac8
Details
Issue 1: Command injection in standardVersion
The following proof-of-concept illustrates the vulnerability. First install Standard Version and create an empty git repo to run the PoC in:
Now create a file with the following contents:
and run it:
Notice that a file named exploit has been created.
This vulnerability is similar to command injection vulnerabilities that have been found in other Javascript libraries. Here are some examples: CVE-2020-7646, CVE-2020-7614, CVE-2020-7597, CVE-2019-10778, CVE-2019-10776, CVE-2018-16462, CVE-2018-16461, CVE-2018-16460, CVE-2018-13797, CVE-2018-3786, CVE-2018-3772, CVE-2018-3746, CVE-2017-16100, CVE-2017-16042.
We have written a CodeQL query, which automatically detects this vulnerability. You can see the results of the query on the standard-version project here.
Impact
This issue may lead to remote code execution if a client of the library calls the vulnerable method with untrusted input.
Remediation
We recommend not using an API that can interpret a string as a shell command. For example, use child_process.execFile instead of child_process.exec.
Credit
This issue was discovered and reported by GitHub Engineer @erik-krogh (Erik Krogh Kristensen).
Contact
You can contact the GHSL team at securitylab@github.com, please include GHSL-2020-111 in any communication regarding this issue.
Disclosure Policy
This report is subject to our coordinated disclosure policy.
Пакеты
standard-version
< 8.0.1
8.0.1