{"id":"CVE-2020-28490","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-28490","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:32:02.534Z","title":"The package async-git before 1.13.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection via shell meta-characters (back-ticks).","description":"The package async-git before 1.13.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection via shell meta-characters (back-ticks). For example: git.reset('atouch HACKEDb')","published":"2021-02-18T15:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:10:32.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"report@snyk.io","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-78"],"affected":["async-git project/async-git"],"epss":{"score":0.02549,"percentile":0.8491,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.55%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/commit/d1950a5021f4e19d92f347614be0d85ce991510d","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ASYNCGIT-1064877","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/commit/d1950a5021f4e19d92f347614be0d85ce991510d","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ASYNCGIT-1064877","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28490","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}