🛡️ CVE-2021-39160 — nbgitpuller

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Code injection in nbgitpuller

Impact

Due to an unsanitized input, visiting maliciously crafted links could result in arbitrary code execution in the user environment.

Patches

0.10.2

Workarounds

None, other than upgrade to 0.10.2 or downgrade to 0.8.x.

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How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-39160 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2021-39160 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nbgitpuller (from 0.9.0 up to 0.10.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 August 2021 and last revised on 8 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-08-30
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nbgitpuller 0.9.0 0.10.2

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