Recommended action

Monitor this advisory for an available fix and review any installs of the affected package.

hol-guard supply-chain scan

What this means

OS Command Injection in install-package affects install-package (npm). Severity is critical. install-package through 0.4.0 is vulnerable to Command Injection. It allows execution of arbitrary commands via the options argument.

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in npm. A critical vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software

Evidence and references

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7629

Recommended action

Monitor this advisory for an available fix and review any installs of the affected package.

hol-guard supply-chain scan

What this means

OS Command Injection in install-package affects install-package (npm). Severity is critical. install-package through 0.4.0 is vulnerable to Command Injection. It allows execution of arbitrary commands via the options argument.

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in npm. A critical vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software

Evidence and references

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7629