CVE-2022-40764
Snyk CLI affected by Command Injection vulnerability
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-40764
To remediate CVE-2022-40764, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.996.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.19.1 or later
Is CVE-2022-40764 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.996.0
- from 0, < 1.19.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |