NIST deprecates RSA-2048 from 2030. Find every one of them before attackers do.
📦
📦 npm
Not in CISA KEV
MEDIUM severity

CVE-2024-21531 — git-shallow-clone

MEDIUM

CVE-2024-21531 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) OS Command Injection vulnerability in git-shallow-clone. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.

git-shallow-clone Argument Injection vulnerability

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
None yet
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 12, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Proof-of-concept exploit code exists

  • CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-21531.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.9%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs60th percentile — riskier than 60% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.48%0.96%1.45%0.1%0.9%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

2other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
git-shallow-clonenpm
7downloads / week

Description

All versions of the package git-shallow-clone are vulnerable to Argument injection due to missing sanitization or mitigation flags in the process variable of the gitShallowClone function.

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmgit-shallow-cloneall versionsNo fix

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for git-shallow-clone, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Remediation status

    The records we use list no patched version of git-shallow-clone for CVE-2024-21531. Check the maintainer's advisory, and where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does.

Frequently Asked Questions

All versions of the package git-shallow-clone are vulnerable to Argument injection due to missing sanitization or mitigation flags in the process variable of the gitShallowClone function.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

Is CVE-2024-21531 in your dependencies?

Find it across npm, including transitive dependencies.

Scan my dependencies How O3 SCA works
CVE-2024-21531: git-shallow-clone (Medium 5.3)