What is CVE-2022-21223?

CVE-2022-21223 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cocoapods Cocoapods-Downloader, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2022-04-01.

How severe is CVE-2022-21223?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-21223 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Cocoapods Cocoapods-Downloader

CVE-2022-21223

The package cocoapods-downloader before 1.6.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection via hg argument injection. When calling the download function (when using hg), the url (and/or revision, tag, branch) is passed to the hg clone command in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

EPSS: 0.018 (76.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Cocoapods Cocoapods-downloader
N/a Cocoapods-downloader — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

dellalibera/dellalibera

References

report@snyk.io (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
report@snyk.io (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-21223?: CVE-2022-21223 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cocoapods Cocoapods-Downloader, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2022-04-01.
How severe is CVE-2022-21223?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-21223 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.