Vulnerability in cocoapods-downloader (CVE-2022-24440)
Summary
Vulnerability in cocoapods-downloader (CVE-2022-24440). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.6.3 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
The package cocoapods-downloader before 1.6.0, from 1.6.2 and before 1.6.3 are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the Pod::Downloader.preprocess_options function and using git, both the git and branch parameters are passed to the git ls-remote subcommand in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-24440 has been found in cocoapods-downloader.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade cocoapods-downloader to 1.6.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "cocoapods-downloader CVE-2022-24440" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2022-24440 (cocoapods-downloader) — CWE-74
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 1.6.3 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-74) exists in cocoapods-downloader.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of cocoapods-downloader.
Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 1.6.3.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'cocoapods-downloader' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'cocoapods-downloader' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
cocoapods-downloaderを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade cocoapods-downloader to 1.6.3ステージング環境で 1.6.3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
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