CVE-2025-58178Command Injection via sonarqube-scan-action GitHub Action
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
SonarQube Server and Cloud is a static analysis solution for continuous code quality and security inspection. In versions 4 to 5.3.0, a command injection vulnerability was discovered in the SonarQube Scan GitHub Action that allows untrusted input arguments to be processed without proper sanitization. Arguments sent to the action are treated as shell expressions, allowing potential execution of arbitrary commands. A fix has been released in SonarQube Scan GitHub Action 5.3.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
SonarSource · sonarqube-scan-action
- affected >= 4, < 5.3.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- GitHub ActionsSonarSource/sonarqube-scan-actionGHSA-f79p-9c5r-xg88 (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action/security/advisories/GHSA-f79p-9c5r-xg88 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action/pull/200 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action/commit/016cabf33a6b7edf0733e179a03ad408ad4e88ba (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://community.sonarsource.com/t/security-advisory-sonarqube-scanner-github-action/147696 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/SQSCANGHA-101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
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-2025-26367 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-f79p-9c5r-xg88 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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