CVE-2020-26222: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

November 13, 2020 (updated December 3, 2020)

Dependabot is a set of packages for automated dependency management for Ruby, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Elixir, Rust, Java, .NET, Elm and Go. In Dependabot-Core from beta1, there is a remote code execution vulnerability in dependabot-common and dependabot-go_modules when a source branch name contains malicious injectable bash code.

References

github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/commit/e089116abbe284425b976f7920e502b8e83a61b5
github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/pull/2727
github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/security/advisories/GHSA-23f7-99jx-m54r
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26222

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