Skip to content
Fencer Intel
high 7.8

CVE-2022-40764 json

Snyk CLI affected by Command Injection vulnerability

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-hpqj-7cj6-hfj8 , EUVD-2022-7108

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • npm snyk 1.996.0
  • npm snyk-go-plugin 1.19.1
  • snyk cli 1.996.0
  • snyk golang_cli 1.19.1

Is CVE-2022-40764 in your dependencies? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-40764 updated cvss 7.8

snyk: Command Injection vulnerability affecting Snyk CLI

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • imperva.com https://www.imperva.com/blog/how-scanning-your-projects-for-security-issues-can-lead-to-remote-code-execution/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm snyk
<1.996.0
1.996.0
npm snyk-go-plugin
<1.19.1
1.19.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.