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🛡️ CVE-2022-40764 — cli

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-78 NVD
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Description

Snyk CLI affected by Command Injection vulnerability

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-40764 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-2022-40764 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • cli (fixed in 1.996.0)
  • golang-cli (fixed in 1.19.1)
  • snyk
  • snyk-go-plugin

Timeline and source

Published on 3 October 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
support.snyk.io
www.imperva.com
github.com
github.com
support.snyk.io
www.imperva.com

Other advisories for this package

cli has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-78: OS Command Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cli — 1.996.0
golang-cli — 1.19.1
snyk — —
snyk-go-plugin — —

References

Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.996.0
Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/snyk/snyk-go-plugin/releases/tag/v1.19.1
Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.996.0
Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/snyk/snyk-go-plugin/releases/tag/v1.19.1

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