Nrwl Nx up to 22.7.7/23.1.0 Release Docker os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Nrwl Nx up to 22.7.7/23.1.0. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Release Docker. This manipulation causes os command injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-104859. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Nrwl Nx up to 22.7.7/23.1.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Release Docker. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-104859 since 10/02/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 22.7.8 or 23.1.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Nrwl

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• Nx

Version

• 22.7.0
• 22.7.1
• 22.7.2
• 22.7.3
• 22.7.4
• 22.7.5
• 22.7.6
• 22.7.7
• 23.0
• 23.1.0

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• Product: https://github.com/nrwl/nx/

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