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Critical CVE
CVSS 9.83 sources verified·1 min read
By Lyrie Threat Intelligence·6/17/2026

CRITICAL: CVE-2021-3190 (CVSS 9.8) — async-git project async-git

CVE: CVE-2021-3190

CVSS: 9.8 (3.1) — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: CRITICAL

Status: Critical advisory

Affected

  • async-git project async-git

Summary

The async-git package before 1.13.2 for Node.js allows OS Command Injection via shell metacharacters, as demonstrated by git.reset and git.tag.

Verified Sources

References

  • https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4772
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/611823bd97dd41e9e8127c38066868ff9dcfa57a
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/a5f45f58941006c4cc1699609383b533d9b92c6a
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14
  • https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4772
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/611823bd97dd41e9e8127c38066868ff9dcfa57a
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/13/commits/a5f45f58941006c4cc1699609383b533d9b92c6a
  • https://github.com/omrilotan/async-git/pull/14

_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._

Lyrie Verdict

A vulnerability of this severity is exactly what Lyrie's anti-rogue-AI defense is built for: continuous, autonomous monitoring that doesn't wait for human reaction time.

Validated sources

  1. [1]NVD
  2. [2]GitHub Advisory
  3. [3]MITRE