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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-48723 EUVD-2026-37017

BrowserStack Cypress CL: Command Injection via cypress_config_file leads to arbitrary code execution through malicious browserstack.json

Published Jun 15, 2026 · Updated Jun 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

The browserstack-cypress-cli is BrowserStack's CLI which allows users to run Cypress tests on BrowserStack. Versions prior to 1.36.4 are vulnerable to OS command injection via the cypress_config_file configuration parameter. In readCypressConfigUtil.js, the loadJsFile() function constructs a shell command by interpolating the user-controlled cypress_config_filepath value into a template literal, then executes it via child_process.execSync(). Shell metacharacters in the config path (specifically " and ;) allow breaking out of the quoted argument and injecting arbitrary commands. This issue has been fixed in version 1.36.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
browserstack browserstack-cypress-cli < 1.36.6 —

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