
CVE catalog
CVE-2026-28291
simple-git enables running native Git commands from JavaScript. Versions up to and including 3.31.1 allow execution of arbitrary commands through Git option manipulation, bypassing safety checks meant
- Severity
- High · CVSS 8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.77% · Oct 25, 2026
simple-git enables running native Git commands from JavaScript. Versions up to and including 3.31.1 allow execution of arbitrary commands through Git option manipulation, bypassing safety checks meant to block dangerous options like -u and --upload-pack. The flaw stems from an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-25860, as Git's flexible option parsing allows numerous character combinations (e.g., -vu, -4u, -nu) to circumvent the regular-expression-based blocklist in the unsafe operations plugin. Due to the virtually infinite number of valid option variants that Git accepts, a complete blocklist-based mitigation may be infeasible without fully emulating Git's option parsing behavior. This issue has been fixed in version 3.32.0.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cpe | simple-git | Not reported | 3.32.0 | fixed |
| Cpe | simple-git | Not reported | 3.32.0 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cpe | simple-git | cpe | Not reported | 3.32.0 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cpe | simple-git | cpe | Not reported | 3.32.0 | Not reported | NVD-CVE-2026-28291 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed:
References
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28291]
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457930]
- [https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/blob/789c13ebabcf18ebe0b3a0c88ebb4037dede42e3/simple-git/src/lib/plugins/block-unsafe-operations-plugin.ts#L26]
- [https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/commit/1effd8e5012a5da05a9776512fac3e39b11f2d2d]
- [https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/releases/tag/simple-git%403.32.0]
- [https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/security/advisories/GHSA-jcxm-m3jx-f287]
- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28291]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-28291.json]
- [https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25860]
[FIRST EPSS] · [National Vulnerability Database (NVD)] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX]