Checkmarx ast-cli up to 2.3.59 Auto-Update integrity check

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Checkmarx ast-cli up to 2.3.59. Affected is an unknown function of the component Auto-Update. The manipulation results in integrity check. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-77157. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Checkmarx ast-cli up to 2.3.59. Affected is an unknown part of the component Auto-Update. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integrity check vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-354. The product does not validate or incorrectly validates the integrity check values or "checksums" of a message. This may prevent it from detecting if the data has been modified or corrupted in transmission. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

ast-cli downloads two helper binaries, the Vorpal ASCA real-time engine and the SCA Resolver, from "download.checkmarx.com" as part of its auto-update flow, triggered by the Checkmarx’s "VSCode/JetBrains" extensions and by cx scan "sca-realtime". Prior to the fix, the downloaded archive was not verified against a checksum before extraction and execution. An attacker able to substitute the served archive could deliver an arbitrary binary that ast-cli would extract and execute the contents of the archive, since no integrity check was performed on the download. Successful exploitation requires compromising "download.checkmarx.com" and replacing the served archive with one containing an attacker-controlled binary. If the served archive had been replaced that way, any developer machine or CI pipeline invoking ASCA (via Checkmarx's VSCode/JetBrains extensions) or cx scan "sca-realtime" on an affected version would have extracted and executed that binary in place of the intended download. The download is now verified against a published SHA-256 checksum before extraction.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-77157 since 08/20/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2.3.60 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Checkmarx

Name

• ast-cli

Version

• 2.3.0
• 2.3.1
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.6
• 2.3.7
• 2.3.8
• 2.3.9
• 2.3.10
• 2.3.11
• 2.3.12
• 2.3.13
• 2.3.14
• 2.3.15
• 2.3.16
• 2.3.17
• 2.3.18
• 2.3.19
• 2.3.20
• 2.3.21
• 2.3.22
• 2.3.23
• 2.3.24
• 2.3.25
• 2.3.26
• 2.3.27
• 2.3.28
• 2.3.29
• 2.3.30
• 2.3.31
• 2.3.32
• 2.3.33
• 2.3.34
• 2.3.35
• 2.3.36
• 2.3.37
• 2.3.38
• 2.3.39
• 2.3.40
• 2.3.41
• 2.3.42
• 2.3.43
• 2.3.44
• 2.3.45
• 2.3.46
• 2.3.47
• 2.3.48
• 2.3.49
• 2.3.50
• 2.3.51
• 2.3.52
• 2.3.53
• 2.3.54
• 2.3.55
• 2.3.56
• 2.3.57
• 2.3.58
• 2.3.59

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