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CVE-2020-28490Command Injection
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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')
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
async-git
- affected unspecified – < 1.13.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmasync-gitGHSA-6qpr-9mc5-7gch (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ASYNCGIT-1064877 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/commit/d1950a5021f4e19d92f347614be0d85ce991510d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-0777 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6qpr-9mc5-7gch (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-28490)Record last updated .