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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CVE-2025-66219

Medium
6.9/10

Summary

willitmerge is a command-line tool to check if pull requests are mergeable. There is a Command Injection vulnerability in willitmerge. The vulnerability manifests in this package due to the use of an insecure child process execution API (exec) to which it concatenates user input, whether provided to the command-line flag, or is in user control in the target repository. At the time of publication, no known fix is public.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-77 - Command Injection

A command injection attack involves injecting an operating system command through the data input, which gets executed on the host operating system with the privileges of the victimized application. The impact of a command injection attack may range from loss of data confidentiality and integrity to unauthorized remote access to the hosting system. The attack may cause serious data breaches and system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published