@apostrophecms/cli: Command Injection in apos create via Unsanitized Password Input

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ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. Versions of the @apostrophecms/cli package up to and including 3.6.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the apos create command. User-supplied input from the password prompt is embedded directly into a shell command without proper sanitization or escaping. This allows execution of arbitrary commands on the host system. As of time of publication, no known patched versions are available.

Source published

12 Jun 2026 20:37:00 UTC

Source modified

13 Jun 2026 03:34:34 UTC

Observed here

23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. Versions of the @apostrophecms/cli package up to and including 3.6.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the apos create command. User-supplied input from the password prompt is embedded directly into a shell command without proper sanitization or escaping. This allows execution of arbitrary commands on the host system. As of time of publication, no known patched versions are available.

Source published

Jun 12, 2026, 8:37:00 PM (timezone not stated)

Source modified

Jun 13, 2026, 3:34:34 AM (timezone not stated)

Observed here

7 Nov 2026 09:35:58 UTC

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EUVD CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. Versions of the @apostrophecms/cli package up to and including 3.6.0 contain a command injection vulnerability in the apos create command. User-supplied input from the password prompt is embedded directly into a shell command without proper sanitization or escaping. This allows execution of arbitrary commands on the host system. As of time of publication, no known patched versions are available.

Source published

12 Jun 2026 21:16:21 UTC

Source modified

26 Oct 2026 11:10:00 UTC

Observed here

27 Oct 2026 11:12:04 UTC

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NIST NVD usage terms; underlying source attribution retained

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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary The @apostrophecms/cli package contains a command injection vulnerability in the apos create command. User-supplied input from the password prompt is embedded directly into a shell command without proper sanitization or escaping. This allows execution of arbitrary commands on the host system. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Details Vulnerable file: lib/commands/create.js Location: Line 186 The CLI collects a password using an interactive prompt and passes it directly into a shell command. Vulnerable code: const response = await prompts({ type: 'password', name: 'pw', message: '🔏 Please enter a password:' }); exec(echo "${response.pw}" | ${createUserCommand}); The value of response.pw is not validated, sanitized, or escaped before being used in exec(). This allows shell metacharacters such as ;, &&, and $() to break out of the intended command and execute arbitrary commands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Steps to Reproduce 1) Install the CLI npm install -g @apostrophecms/cli 2) Create a new project mkdir testproject && cd testproject apos create mysite 3)When prompted for the admin password, enter "; id > /tmp/apos_rce_proof.txt; echo " 4)Verify command execution cat /tmp/apos_rce_proof.txt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Proof of Concept Output uid=1000(vboxuser) gid=1000(vboxuser) groups=1000(vboxuser),27(sudo),984(docker) This confirms arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the user running the CLI. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Impact Arbitrary command execution on the developer’s machine Execution occurs with the privileges of the user running the CLI This can lead to: File modification or deletion Credential exposure System compromise depending on user privileges An attacker can exploit this by influencing the password input (for example, through social engineering, malicious documentation, or compromised automation scripts). The proof-of-concept shows execution under a user belonging to privileged groups such as sudo and docker, which may allow further privilege escalation depending on system configuration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suggested Fix Avoid using exec() with user-controlled input. Use execFile() instead: const { execFileSync } = require('child_process'); execFileSync('node', [appJsPath, userTask, 'admin', 'admin'], { input: response.pw + '\n' }); ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Affected Version All current versions of @apostrophecms/cli ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tested On Ubuntu 22.04 Node.js v18.19.1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CWE CWE-78 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Source published

14 May 2026 16:16:16 UTC

Source modified

10 Sep 2026 03:50:47 UTC

Observed here

24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC

Source terms

GitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0

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CVSS_V3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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