Command Injection in metagpt (CVE-2026-5972)
Summary
Command injection in metagpt (CVE-2026-5972). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.8.2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability has been found in FoundationAgents MetaGPT up to 0.8.1. This issue affects the function Terminal.run_command in the library metagpt/tools/libs/terminal.py. The manipulation leads to os command injection. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of the patch is d04ffc8dc67903e8b327f78ec121df5e190ffc7b. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-5972 has been found in metagpt.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade metagpt to 0.8.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "metagpt CVE-2026-5972" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-5972 (metagpt) — CWE-77
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 0.8.2 — 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-77) exists in metagpt.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of metagpt.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.8.2.
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 'metagpt' . 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 'metagpt' . | 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
metagpt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 metagpt to 0.8.2ステージング環境で 0.8.2 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
- package github.com
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- web vuldb.com
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