CVE-2022-25865: Microsoft Workspace-Tools

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The package workspace-tools before 0.18.4 are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the fetchRemoteBranch(remote: string, remoteBranch: string, cwd: string) function, both the remote and remoteBranch parameters are passed to the git fetch subcommand in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

Affected products

• Microsoft Workspace-Tools: before 0.18.4 (fixed in 0.18.4)

Published 2022-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.