CVE-2022-21223: Cocoapods Cocoapods-Downloader

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The package cocoapods-downloader before 1.6.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection via hg argument injection. When calling the download function (when using hg), the url (and/or revision, tag, branch) is passed to the hg clone command in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

Affected products

• Cocoapods Cocoapods-Downloader: before 1.6.2 (fixed in 1.6.2)

Published 2022-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.