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High · 8.4 CVE-2022-39243 EUVD-2022-6785GHSA-cxgf-v2p8-7ph7

NuProcess vulnerable to command-line injection through insertion of NUL character(s)

Published Sep 26, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

NuProcess is an external process execution implementation for Java. In all the versions of NuProcess where it forks processes by using the JVM's Java_java_lang_UNIXProcess_forkAndExec method (1.2.0+), attackers can use NUL characters in their strings to perform command line injection. Java's ProcessBuilder isn't vulnerable because of a check in ProcessBuilder.start. NuProcess is missing that check. This vulnerability can only be exploited to inject command line arguments on Linux. Version 2.0.5 contains a patch. As a workaround, users of the library can sanitize command strings to remove NUL characters prior to passing them to NuProcess for execution.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
brettwooldridge NuProcess >= 1.2.0, < 2.0.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 watchman No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS watchman No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 watchman No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS watchman No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS watchman No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS watchman No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.zaxxer:nuprocess >= 1.2.0, < 2.0.5 2.0.5 GHSA-cxgf-v2p8-7ph7

References