Vulnerability · Published Oct 3, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-40764

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the snyk package (npm). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
npm	snyk	1.996.0	GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8
npm	snyk-go-plugin	1.19.1	GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/snyk/snyk-go-plugin/releases/tag/v1.19.1 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.996.0 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.imperva.com/blog/how-scanning-your-projects-for-security-issues-can-lead-to-remote-code-execution/ x_refsource_MISC
https://support.snyk.io/hc/en-us/articles/7015908293789-CVE-2022-40764-Command-Injection-vulnerability-affecting-Snyk-CLI-versions-prior-to-1-996-0 x_refsource_MISC