CVE-2022-3008 Command Injection on tinygltf

What is CVE-2022-3008?

CVE-2022-3008 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The tinygltf library uses the C library function wordexp() to perform file path expansion on untrusted paths that are provided from the input file. This function allows for command injection by using backticks. An attacker could craft an untrusted path input that would result in a path expansion. We recommend upgrading to 2.6.0 or past commit 52ff00a38447f06a17eab1caa2cf0730a119c751

Weakness: CWE-77, CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3008?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Tinygltf Project Tinygltf.

How do I fix CVE-2022-3008?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2022-3008 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-3008 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3008, DSA-5232-1, GHSA-ghg5-6g69-q4q3, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3008, USN-7129-1.