TI-2025-37283 Aliases CVE-2025-59844 GHSA-5xq9-5g24-4g6f

Argument injection vulnerability in SonarQube Scan Action

LOW 39CWE-78Published 2025-09-26 · Updated 2025-09-26

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: Present
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-78.

Summary

SonarQube Server and Cloud is a static analysis solution for continuous code quality and security inspection. A command injection vulnerability exists in SonarQube GitHub Action in version 4.0.0 to before version 6.0.0 when workflows pass user-controlled input to the args parameter on Windows runners without proper validation. This vulnerability bypasses a previous security fix and allows arbitrary command execution, potentially leading to exposure of sensitive environment variables and compromise of the runner environment. The vulnerability has been fixed in version 6.0.0. Users should upgrade to this version or later.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.01469 73rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed sonarqube-scan-action (SonarSource): 6.0.0SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action (GitHub Actions): 6.0.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

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

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
SonarSource	sonarqube-scan-action	4.0.0 to before 6.0.0	6.0.0	Patch available	CNA
—	SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action (GitHub Actions)	4.0.0 to before 6.0.0	6.0.0	Patch available	GHSA-5xq9-5g24-4g6f

sonarqube-scan-action VendorSonarSource Affected 4.0.0 to before 6.0.0 Fixed in 6.0.0 Patch available CNA
SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action (GitHub Actions) Vendor— Affected 4.0.0 to before 6.0.0 Fixed in 6.0.0 Patch available GHSA-5xq9-5g24-4g6f

Remediation

Fix · CNA sonarqube-scan-action (SonarSource) Fixed in 6.0.0
Fix · GHSA-5xq9-5g24-4g6f SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action (GitHub Actions) Fixed in 6.0.0 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-59844
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5xq9-5g24-4g6f

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59844

Other 4

TI-2020-17021 SonarQube 8.4.2.36762 allows remote attackers to discover cleartext SMTP, SVN, and GitLab… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2020-17875 The official sonarqube docker images before alpine (Alpine specific) contain a blank… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-35986 Command Injection via sonarqube-scan-action GitHub Action CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
TI-2024-32164 In SonarSource SonarQube 10.4 through 10.5 before 10.6, a vulnerability was discovered in… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
TI-2018-15898 An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in Jenkins SonarQube Scanner… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8
TI-2024-25703 In SonarQube before 10.4 and 9.9.4 LTA, encrypted values generated using the Settings… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5

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Sources

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