willitmerge has a command Injection vulnerability

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willitmerge is a command line tool to check if pull requests are mergeable. In versions 0.2.1 and prior, there is a command Injection vulnerability in willitmerge. The vulnerability manifests in this package due to the use of insecure child process execution API (exec) to which it concatenates user input, whether provided to the command-line flag, or is in user control in the target repository. At time of publication, no known fix is public.

Source published

29 Nov 2025 01:34:33 UTC

Source modified

1 Dec 2025 19:15:03 UTC

Observed here

23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC

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CVSS 4.0 · 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

willitmerge is a command line tool to check if pull requests are mergeable. In versions 0.2.1 and prior, there is a command Injection vulnerability in willitmerge. The vulnerability manifests in this package due to the use of insecure child process execution API (exec) to which it concatenates user input, whether provided to the command-line flag, or is in user control in the target repository. At time of publication, no known fix is public.

Source published

Nov 29, 2025, 1:34:33 AM (timezone not stated)

Source modified

Dec 1, 2025, 7:15:03 PM (timezone not stated)

Observed here

11 Nov 2026 04:33:30 UTC

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ENISA EUVD · source terms and attribution apply

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EUVD CVSS 4.0 · 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

willitmerge is a command line tool to check if pull requests are mergeable. In versions 0.2.1 and prior, there is a command Injection vulnerability in willitmerge. The vulnerability manifests in this package due to the use of insecure child process execution API (exec) to which it concatenates user input, whether provided to the command-line flag, or is in user control in the target repository. At time of publication, no known fix is public.

Source published

29 Nov 2025 02:15:52 UTC

Source modified

7 Oct 2026 20:10:01 UTC

Observed here

25 Oct 2026 03:17:36 UTC

Source terms

NIST NVD usage terms; underlying source attribution retained

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CVSS 4.0 · [email protected] · Secondary · 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Primary · 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

willitmerge describes itself as a command line tool to check if pull requests are mergeable. There is a Command Injection vulnerability in version `[email protected]`. Resources: * Project's GitHub source code: https://github.com/shama/willitmerge/ * Project's npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/willitmerge ## Background on exploitation Reporting a Command Injection vulnerability in `willitmerge` npm package. A security vulnerability manifests in this package due to the use of insecure child process execution API (`exec`) to which it concateanes user input, whether provided to the command-line flag, or is in user control in the target repository. ## Exploit ### POC 1 1. Install `willitmerge` 2. Run it with the following command ```sh willitmerge --verbose --remote "https://github.com/lirantal/npq.git; touch /tmp/hel" ``` 3. Confirm the file `/tmp/hel` is created on disk ### GitHub-sourced attack vector [Lines 189-197](https://github.com/shama/willitmerge/blob/2fe91d05191fb05ac6da685828d109a3a5885028/lib/willitmerge.js#L189-L197) in `lib/willitmerge.js` pass user input controlled by repository collaborators into the git command: ```js var cmds = [ 'git checkout -b ' + branch + ' ' + that.options.remote + '/' + iss.base.ref, 'git remote add ' + branch + ' ' + gitUrl, 'git pull ' + branch + ' ' + iss.head.ref, 'git reset --merge HEAD', 'git checkout ' + origBranch, 'git branch -D ' + branch, 'git remote rm ' + branch ]; ``` Users creating malicious branch names such as `;{echo,hello,world}>/tmp/c` This is a similar attack vector to that which was reported for the [pullit vulnerability (https://security.snyk.io/vuln/npm:pullit:20180214) # Author Liran Tal

Source published

26 Nov 2025 22:09:27 UTC

Source modified

1 Dec 2025 17:03:45 UTC

Observed here

24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC

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GitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0

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CVSS_V4 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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