CVE-2022-24440: Cocoapods Cocoapods-Downloader

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The package cocoapods-downloader before 1.6.0, from 1.6.2 and before 1.6.3 are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the Pod::Downloader.preprocess_options function and using git, both the git and branch parameters are passed to the git ls-remote subcommand 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 1.6.0 (fixed in 1.6.0); version 1.6.2 only

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