{"id":"CVE-2026-104859","aliases":["EUVD-2026-91767","GHSA-6vc5-vf29-ffr2"],"status":"published","title":"Nx: OS command injection in the @nx/docker release pipeline","description":"Nx is a monorepo solution for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. From 21.4.0 until 22.7.8 and from 23.0.0 until 23.1.1, the @nx/docker release pipeline builds docker tag, image lookup, and docker push invocations as shell command strings. The release.docker.repositoryName and registryUrl configuration values are interpolated into those strings and passed to /bin/sh -c, allowing shell syntax in untrusted Nx configuration to execute during nx release version or nx release publish. A pull request or repository configuration change can therefore execute commands with the release job's privileges and expose registry credentials or cloud tokens, and dry-run publishing does not prevent the vulnerable pre-check command from executing. This issue is fixed in versions 22.7.8 and 23.1.1.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00148,"percentile":0.04104,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-78"],"published":"2026-10-02T17:49:37Z","modified":"2026-11-11T02:49:13Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"@nx/docker","fixed_in":["22.7.8","23.1.1"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@nx/docker","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"21.4.0"},{"fixed":"22.7.8"}]}]},{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@nx/docker","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"23.0.0"},{"fixed":"23.1.1"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@nx/docker","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"21.4.0"},{"fixed":"22.7.8"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@nx/docker","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"23.0.0"},{"fixed":"23.1.1"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"nrwl","product":"nx"},{"vendor":"siemens","product":"nx"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-6vc5-vf29-ffr2","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/pull/36505","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/commit/6d60eed061f050e0d5af509a1f5a07c707f09865","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/commit/b587441fd8da28c5db37edb0826554e0060dc81b","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104859","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vc5-vf29-ffr2"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/104xxx/CVE-2026-104859.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-104859","title":"Nx: OS command injection in the @nx/docker release pipeline","description":"Nx is a monorepo solution for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. From 21.4.0 until 22.7.8 and from 23.0.0 until 23.1.1, the @nx/docker release pipeline builds docker tag, image lookup, and docker push invocations as shell command strings. The release.docker.repositoryName and registryUrl configuration values are interpolated into those strings and passed to /bin/sh -c, allowing shell syntax in untrusted Nx configuration to execute during nx release version or nx release publish. A pull request or repository configuration change can therefore execute commands with the release job's privileges and expose registry credentials or cloud tokens, and dry-run publishing does not prevent the vulnerable pre-check command from executing. This issue is fixed in versions 22.7.8 and 23.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-02T17:49:37.975Z","modified":"2026-10-05T20:09:01.291Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:09.448255Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-91767","description":"Nx is a monorepo solution for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. From 21.4.0 until 22.7.8 and from 23.0.0 until 23.1.1, the @nx/docker release pipeline builds docker tag, image lookup, and docker push invocations as shell command strings. The release.docker.repositoryName and registryUrl configuration values are interpolated into those strings and passed to /bin/sh -c, allowing shell syntax in untrusted Nx configuration to execute during nx release version or nx release publish. A pull request or repository configuration change can therefore execute commands with the release job's privileges and expose registry credentials or cloud tokens, and dry-run publishing does not prevent the vulnerable pre-check command from executing. This issue is fixed in versions 22.7.8 and 23.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-02T17:49:37Z","modified":"2026-10-05T20:09:01Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:27:39.05741Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-6vc5-vf29-ffr2","title":"@nx/docker: OS command injection in the @nx/docker release pipeline","description":"## Summary\n\nThe `@nx/docker` release pipeline builds its `docker` invocations as shell command strings, interpolating `release.docker.repositoryName` and `registryUrl` from Nx configuration into them. Because those strings are handed to `/bin/sh -c`, a crafted repository or registry name executes as a command during `nx release version` and `nx release publish`. Anyone running a Docker release against a repository whose Nx configuration they do not control — or whose configuration a pull request has changed — executes the injected command with the privileges of the release job, which in CI typically holds registry credentials and cloud tokens.\n\n## Severity\n\nExploitable when someone runs a Docker release against attacker-supplied configuration, with high impact because release jobs hold publishing credentials. There is no known evidence of exploitation in the wild.\n\n## Affected \u0026 Patched Versions\n\n| Package | Vulnerable | Patched |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `@nx/docker` | `\u003e= 21.4.0, \u003c 22.7.8`; `\u003e= 23.0.0, \u003c 23.1.1` | `22.7.8`, `23.1.1` |\n\nEvery published `@nx/docker` release before the patched versions is affected.\n\n\u003e [!IMPORTANT]\n\u003e `--dry-run` does not protect you: one of the injected commands runs before the dry-run check, so even a dry-run publish reaches a shell.\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to **22.7.8** (22.x line) or **23.1.1** (23.x line) or later:\n\n```\nnx migrate 23.1.1\n```\n\nThe fix is a drop-in and requires no configuration change. If you have run `nx release version` with a configuration you do not trust, delete the generated Docker version file before your next publish, since the composed reference is read back from disk.\n\n## Details\n\nSeveral `docker` commands in the release pipeline (`docker tag` during `nx release version`; the image existence check and `docker push` during `nx release publish`) are built as shell command strings with the image reference interpolated in. The reference is composed from the project's `release.docker` `repositoryName` and `registryUrl`, so a value containing shell syntax is executed rather than passed to `docker`.\n \n\n## Credits\n\n- **Arkadiusz Marta** (RE:SOURCE) — Reporter","status":"published","published":"2026-10-05T23:29:13Z","modified":"2026-10-05T23:29:14Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:41:27.036917Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-104859","description":"Nx is a monorepo solution for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. From 21.4.0 until 22.7.8 and from 23.0.0 until 23.1.1, the @nx/docker release pipeline builds docker tag, image lookup, and docker push invocations as shell command strings. The release.docker.repositoryName and registryUrl configuration values are interpolated into those strings and passed to /bin/sh -c, allowing shell syntax in untrusted Nx configuration to execute during nx release version or nx release publish. A pull request or repository configuration change can therefore execute commands with the release job's privileges and expose registry credentials or cloud tokens, and dry-run publishing does not prevent the vulnerable pre-check command from executing. This issue is fixed in versions 22.7.8 and 23.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-02T18:17:02.27Z","modified":"2026-10-05T21:16:32.897Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:53.75133Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-104859","title":"Nx: OS command injection in the @nx/docker release pipeline","description":"Nx is a monorepo solution for TypeScript and polyglot codebases. From 21.4.0 until 22.7.8 and from 23.0.0 until 23.1.1, the @nx/docker release pipeline builds docker tag, image lookup, and docker push invocations as shell command strings. The release.docker.repositoryName and registryUrl configuration values are interpolated into those strings and passed to /bin/sh -c, allowing shell syntax in untrusted Nx configuration to execute during nx release version or nx release publish. A pull request or repository configuration change can therefore execute commands with the release job's privileges and expose registry credentials or cloud tokens, and dry-run publishing does not prevent the vulnerable pre-check command from executing. This issue is fixed in versions 22.7.8 and 23.1.1.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-02T17:49:37.975Z","modified":"2026-11-11T10:47:24.957570192Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-11T03:21:13.402158Z"},{"id":"GHSA-6vc5-vf29-ffr2","title":"@nx/docker: OS command injection in the @nx/docker release pipeline","description":"## Summary\n\nThe `@nx/docker` release pipeline builds its `docker` invocations as shell command strings, interpolating `release.docker.repositoryName` and `registryUrl` from Nx configuration into them. Because those strings are handed to `/bin/sh -c`, a crafted repository or registry name executes as a command during `nx release version` and `nx release publish`. Anyone running a Docker release against a repository whose Nx configuration they do not control — or whose configuration a pull request has changed — executes the injected command with the privileges of the release job, which in CI typically holds registry credentials and cloud tokens.\n\n## Severity\n\nExploitable when someone runs a Docker release against attacker-supplied configuration, with high impact because release jobs hold publishing credentials. There is no known evidence of exploitation in the wild.\n\n## Affected \u0026 Patched Versions\n\n| Package | Vulnerable | Patched |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `@nx/docker` | `\u003e= 21.4.0, \u003c 22.7.8`; `\u003e= 23.0.0, \u003c 23.1.1` | `22.7.8`, `23.1.1` |\n\nEvery published `@nx/docker` release before the patched versions is affected.\n\n\u003e [!IMPORTANT]\n\u003e `--dry-run` does not protect you: one of the injected commands runs before the dry-run check, so even a dry-run publish reaches a shell.\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to **22.7.8** (22.x line) or **23.1.1** (23.x line) or later:\n\n```\nnx migrate 23.1.1\n```\n\nThe fix is a drop-in and requires no configuration change. If you have run `nx release version` with a configuration you do not trust, delete the generated Docker version file before your next publish, since the composed reference is read back from disk.\n\n## Details\n\nSeveral `docker` commands in the release pipeline (`docker tag` during `nx release version`; the image existence check and `docker push` during `nx release publish`) are built as shell command strings with the image reference interpolated in. The reference is composed from the project's `release.docker` `repositoryName` and `registryUrl`, so a value containing shell syntax is executed rather than passed to `docker`.\n \n\n## Credits\n\n- **Arkadiusz Marta** (RE:SOURCE) — Reporter","status":"published","published":"2026-10-05T23:29:13Z","modified":"2026-10-05T23:45:08.226593535Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:39.965326Z"}]}}