GHSA-9c4g-fp4r-prrvCriticalCVSS 9.8

check-branches is vulnerable to command Injection

Published
September 30, 2025
Last Modified
October 3, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

All versions of the package check-branches are vulnerable to Command Injection.

check-branches is a command-line tool that is interacted with locally, or via CI, to confirm no conflicts exist in git branches.

However, the library follows these conventions which can be abused:

  1. It trusts branch names as they are (plain text)
  2. It spawns git commands by concatenating user input

Since a branch name is potentially a user input - as users can create branches remotely via pull requests, or simply due to privileged access to a repository - it can effectively be abused to run any command.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/check-branches:<= 0.0.19

🔗 References (4)