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Advisory record · GHSA-x4ff-q6h8-v7gw

sbt: Source dependency feature (via crafted VCS URL) leads to arbitrary code execution on Windows

CVSS 6.7 MediumEPSS 0.0032 · 24th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 24 Mar 2026, 16:04 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.scala-sbt:sbtMaven>=0.9.5, <1.12.81.12.8
Identifiers
GHSA-x4ff-q6h8-v7gw · CVE-2026-32948
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-78
Tags
Published
24 Mar 2026
Updated
27 Mar 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Vulnerable: sbt versions 0.9.5 up to, but not including, 1.12.8, on Windows. The source dependency feature passes the VCS URI fragment (branch, tag or revision) to git, hg or svn through cmd, without validation. An attacker who can supply a crafted VCS URL in a build definition can run arbitrary Windows commands. Upgrade to sbt 1.12.8 or later; sbt 1.12.7 has a bug that breaks source dependencies, so it should not be used.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.7 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0032, the 24th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:20 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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