Vulnerabilites related to SonarSource - sonarqube-scan-action
CVE-2025-58178 (GCVE-0-2025-58178)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-02 00:51
Modified
2025-09-02 16:07
CWE
  • CWE-77 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
Summary
SonarQube Server and Cloud is a static analysis solution for continuous code quality and security inspection. In versions 4 to 5.3.0, a command injection vulnerability was discovered in the SonarQube Scan GitHub Action that allows untrusted input arguments to be processed without proper sanitization. Arguments sent to the action are treated as shell expressions, allowing potential execution of arbitrary commands. A fix has been released in SonarQube Scan GitHub Action 5.3.1.
Impacted products
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