CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-40764
High (7.8) in snyk. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in snyk 1.996.0.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-78
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- snyk:cli
- snyk:golang_cli
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8 | npm | snyk | <1.996.0 | 1.996.0 |
| GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8 | npm | snyk-go-plugin | <1.19.1 | 1.19.1 |
References
- https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.996.0
- https://github.com/snyk/snyk-go-plugin/releases/tag/v1.19.1
- https://support.snyk.io/hc/en-us/articles/7015908293789-CVE-2022-40764-Command-Injection-vulnerability-affecting-Snyk-CLI-versions-prior-to-1-996-0
- https://www.imperva.com/blog/how-scanning-your-projects-for-security-issues-can-lead-to-remote-code-execution/
- https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.996.0