GHSA-23f7-99jx-m54r
Remote code execution in dependabot-core branch names when cloning
Quick fix
GHSA-23f7-99jx-m54r — dependabot-omnibus: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update dependabot-omnibusDetails
### Impact Remote code execution vulnerability in `dependabot-common` and `dependabot-go_modules` when a source branch name contains malicious injectable bash code.
For example, if Dependabot is configured to use the following source branch name: `"/$({curl,127.0.0.1})"`, Dependabot will make a HTTP request to the following URL: 127.0.0.1 when cloning the source repository.
When Dependabot is configured to clone the source repository during an update, Dependabot runs a shell command to git clone the repository:
```bash git clone --no-tags --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 --branch=<BRANCH> --single-branch <GITHUB_REPO_URL> repo/contents/path ```
Dependabot will always clone the source repository for `go_modules` during the file fetching step and can be configured to clone the repository for other package managers using the `FileFetcher` class from `dependabot-common`.
```ruby source = Dependabot::Source.new( provider: "github", repo: "repo/name", directory: "/", branch: "/$({curl,127.0.0.1})", )
repo_contents_path = "./file/path" fetcher = Dependabot::FileFetchers.for_package_manager("bundler"). new(source: source, credentials: [], repo_contents_path: repo_contents_path) fetcher.clone_repo_contents ```
### Patches
The fix was applied to version `0.125.1`: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/pull/2727
### Workarounds Escape the branch name prior to passing it to the `Dependabot::Source` class.
For example using `shellwords`:
```ruby require "shellwords" branch = Shellwords.escape("/$({curl,127.0.0.1})") source = Dependabot::Source.new( provider: "github", repo: "repo/name", directory: "/", branch: branch, ) ```
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Affected packages
0.119.0.beta1Fixed in: 0.125.1bundle update dependabot-omnibus0.119.0.beta1Fixed in: 0.125.1bundle update dependabot-commonReferences
- https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/security/advisories/GHSA-23f7-99jx-m54r[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26222[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/pull/2727[WEB]
- https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/commit/e089116abbe284425b976f7920e502b8e83a61b5[WEB]
- https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/dependabot-common/CVE-2020-26222.yml[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/dependabot-omnibus/CVE-2020-26222.yml[WEB]
- https://rubygems.org/gems/dependabot-common[WEB]
- https://rubygems.org/gems/dependabot-omnibus[WEB]