lingdojo kana-dojo up to 0.1.17 patchNotesData.json child_process.execSync os command injection

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A vulnerability was found in lingdojo kana-dojo up to 0.1.17. It has been rated as critical. This vulnerability affects the function child_process.execSync of the file patchNotesData.json. Performing a manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-48547. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in lingdojo kana-dojo up to 0.1.17. This affects the function child_process.execSync of the file patchNotesData.json. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

KanaDojo contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an attacker with pull request access to execute arbitrary shell commands by inserting shell metacharacters into the version or changes fields of patchNotesData.json, which are interpolated unsanitized into a child_process.execSync() call in the release.yml workflow. Attackers can have a malicious pull request merged to trigger the GitHub Actions runner with contents write permissions and access to GITHUB_TOKEN.

The weakness was released by Katriel Moses. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-48547 since 05/21/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:patchNotesData.json it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 0.1.18 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-36284). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• lingdojo

Name

• kana-dojo

Version

• 0.1.0
• 0.1.1
• 0.1.2
• 0.1.3
• 0.1.4
• 0.1.5
• 0.1.6
• 0.1.7
• 0.1.8
• 0.1.9
• 0.1.10
• 0.1.11
• 0.1.12
• 0.1.13
• 0.1.14
• 0.1.15
• 0.1.16
• 0.1.17

Website

• Product: https://github.com/lingdojo/kana-dojo/

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