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TI-2025-36985 Aliases CVE-2025-59433GHSA-vh25-5764-9wcr

@conventional-changelog/git-client has an Argument Injection vulnerability

Priority MEDIUM 57CWE-88Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-88.

Summary

Conventional Changelog generates changelogs and release notes from a project's commit messages and metadata. Prior to version 2.0.0, @conventional-changelog/git-client has an argument injection vulnerability. This vulnerability manifests with the library's getTags() API, which allows extra parameters to be passed to the git log command. In another API by this library, getRawCommits(), there are secure practices taken to ensure that the extra parameter path is unable to inject an argument by ending the git log command with the special shell syntax --. However, the library does not follow the same practice for getTags() as it does not attempt to sanitize for user input, validate the given params, or restrict them to an allow list. Nor does it properly pass command-line flags to the git binary using the double-dash POSIX characters (--) to communicate the end of options. Thus, allowing users to exploit an argument injection vulnerability in Git due to the --output= command-line option that results with overwriting arbitrary files. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00216 12th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed conventional-changelog (conventional-changelog): 2.0.0@conventional-changelog/git-client (npm): 2.0.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
conventional-changelogconventional-changelogbefore 2.0.02.0.0Patch availableCNA
—@conventional-changelog/git-client (npm)before 2.0.02.0.0Patch availableGHSA-vh25-5764-9wcr
  • conventional-changelog Vendorconventional-changelog Affected before 2.0.0 Fixed in 2.0.0 Patch available CNA
  • @conventional-changelog/git-client (npm) Vendor— Affected before 2.0.0 Fixed in 2.0.0 Patch available GHSA-vh25-5764-9wcr

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA conventional-changelog (conventional-changelog) Fixed in 2.0.0
  • Fix · GHSA-vh25-5764-9wcr @conventional-changelog/git-client (npm) Fixed in 2.0.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-59433
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vh25-5764-9wcr

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