Description
The package async-git before 1.13.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection via shell meta-characters (back-ticks). For example: git.reset('atouch HACKEDb')
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Weakness
- Command Injection
- CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-78 and its CVEs
Affected products
async-git
- affected unspecified – < 1.13.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmasync-gitGHSA-6qpr-9mc5-7gch (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ASYNCGIT-1064877 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/commit/d1950a5021f4e19d92f347614be0d85ce991510d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6qpr-9mc5-7gch (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-28490)Record last updated .