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Command Injection

Type: advisorySources: OSV

The package cocoapods-downloader before 1.6.0, from 1.6.2 and before 1.6.3 are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the Pod::Downloader.preprocess_options function and using git, both the git and branch parameters are passed to the git ls-remote subcommand in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2022-24440
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 13:57 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Command Injection

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Apr 2022, 17:35 UTC

The package cocoapods-downloader before 1.6.0, from 1.6.2 and before 1.6.3 are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the Pod::Downloader.preprocess_options function and using git, both the git and branch parameters are passed to the git ls-remote subcommand in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

osv:CVE-2022-24440
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24440",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Command Injection",
    "summary": "The package cocoapods-downloader before 1.6.0, from 1.6.2 and before 1.6.3 are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the Pod::Downloader.preprocess_options function and using git, both the git and branch parameters are passed to the git ls-remote subcommand in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-24440",
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        "GHSA-7627-mp87-jf6q",
        "SNYK-RUBY-COCOAPODSDOWNLOADER-2414278"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:29.496920760Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/24xxx/CVE-2022-24440.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24440",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-COCOAPODSDOWNLOADER-2414278",
        "https://github.com/CocoaPods/cocoapods-downloader/pull/124",
        "https://github.com/CocoaPods/cocoapods-downloader/pull/128"
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      }
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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}