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SCA: security update for simple-git (GHSA-jcxm-m3jx-f287)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 440343

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - simple-git enables running native Git commands from JavaScript. Versions up to and including 3.31.1 allow
 execution of arbitrary commands through Git option manipulation, bypassing safety checks meant to block
 dangerous options like -u and --upload-pack. The flaw stems from an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-25860, as
 Git's flexible option parsing allows numerous character combinations (e.g., -vu, -4u, -nu) to circumvent
 the regular-expression-based blocklist in the unsafe operations plugin. Due to the virtually infinite
 number of valid option variants that Git accepts, a complete blocklist-based mitigation may be infeasible
 without fully emulating Git's option parsing behavior. This issue has been fixed in version 3.32.0.
 (CVE-2026-28291)

Solution

Update the simple-git library and its related packages to version 3.32.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcxm-m3jx-f287

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 440343

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/14/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.92

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-28291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-28291

cwe: CWE-78