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Medium · 6.7 CVE-2026-32948 EUVD-2026-14990GHSA-x4ff-q6h8-v7gw

sbt: Source dependency feature (via crafted VCS URL) leads to arbitrary code execution on Windows

Published Mar 24, 2026 · Updated Mar 26, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

sbt is a build tool for Scala, Java, and others. From version 0.9.5 to before version 1.12.7, on Windows, sbt uses Process("cmd", "/c", ...) to run VCS commands (git, hg, svn). The URI fragment (branch, tag, revision) is user-controlled via the build definition and passed to these commands without validation. Because cmd /c interprets &, |, and ; as command separators, a malicious fragment can execute arbitrary commands. This issue has been patched in version 1.12.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sbt sbt >= 0.9.5, < 1.12.7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.scala-sbt:sbt >= 0.9.5, < 1.12.8 1.12.8 GHSA-x4ff-q6h8-v7gw

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