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CVE-2025-24959

Environment Variable Injection for dotenv API in zx

CVSS 1 LOWEPSS 0.2%CWE-94
Vexday Risk Score
8Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 1EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
03 Feb 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
zx is a tool for writing better scripts. An attacker with control over environment variable values can inject unintended environment variables into `process.env`. This can lead to arbitrary command execution or unexpected behavior in applications that rely on environment variables for security-sensitive operations. Applications that process untrusted input and pass it through `dotenv.stringify` are particularly vulnerable. This issue has been patched in version 8.3.2. Users should immediately upgrade to this version to mitigate the vulnerability. If upgrading is not feasible, users can mitigate the vulnerability by sanitizing user-controlled environment variable values before passing them to `dotenv.stringify`. Specifically, avoid using `"`, `'`, and backticks in values, or enforce strict validation of environment variables before usage.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
google · zx