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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-42290 EUVD-2026-29996GHSA-f84p-cvgm-xgjj

protobufjs-cli: OS Command Injection

Published May 13, 2026 · Updated May 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

protobufjs-cli is the command line add-on for protobuf.js. Prior to 1.2.1 and 2.0.2, pbts invoked JSDoc by building a shell command string from input file paths and executing it through child_process.exec. File paths containing shell metacharacters could therefore be interpreted by the shell instead of being passed to JSDoc as plain arguments. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.1 and 2.0.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
protobufjs protobuf.js >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2, < 1.2.1 —

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.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling vitess-23 23.0.4-r5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm protobufjs-cli < 1.2.1 1.2.1 GHSA-f84p-cvgm-xgjj
npm protobufjs-cli >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2 2.0.2 GHSA-f84p-cvgm-xgjj

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