{"id":"CVE-2026-119282","aliases":["GHSA-qm8w-vx34-5j9j"],"title":"@nx/maven and @nx/gradle have OS command injection via nx.json plugin options","summary":"@nx/maven and @nx/gradle have OS command injection via nx.json plugin options","severity":"high","cwe":["CWE-78","CWE-88"],"vendor":"nx","product":"@nx/maven","ecosystem":"npm","affected":["@nx/maven >= 22.0.2, < 22.7.9","@nx/maven >= 23.0.0, < 23.1.2","@nx/gradle >= 21.0.0, < 22.7.9","@nx/gradle >= 23.0.0, < 23.1.2"],"patched":["@nx/maven 22.7.9","@nx/maven 23.1.2","@nx/gradle 22.7.9","@nx/gradle 23.1.2"],"published":"2026-10-30","updated":"2026-10-30","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-30T14:42:16Z","source":"GHSA","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qm8w-vx34-5j9j","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-qm8w-vx34-5j9j"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119282"},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/pull/36626"},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/commit/02c5d59e8dbbbe30963c0181c6a22cd8c1190a25"},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/commit/60196b7cfcffcada35b6b90e53bf1a78d049b548"},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/commit/c227f4780b054c512965c73aa480a48f9f781409"},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/releases/tag/22.7.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/nrwl/nx/releases/tag/23.1.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qm8w-vx34-5j9j"}],"tags":["ghsa","npm"],"epss":0.0014,"epssPercentile":0.03377,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-30T15:02:40.136Z","slug":"CVE-2026-119282","body":"## Overview\n\n## Summary\n\n`@nx/maven` and `@nx/gradle` spawn their project-graph analyzers through a shell and interpolate plugin options read from `nx.json` straight into the command line. Because a shell parses the whole line, an option value containing shell syntax is executed as a command by any `nx` command that constructs the project graph. Anyone who clones a hostile repository, or who checks out a pull request that edits `nx.json`, runs the injected command with their own privileges.\n\n## Severity\n\nA victim who runs an ordinary `nx` command in an attacker-supplied Maven or Gradle workspace gets code execution as themselves. In most such workspaces an attacker who can write `nx.json` can already run code through the repository's build files (`./mvnw`, `pom.xml`, and the Gradle equivalents), so the genuinely new exposure is narrow — for example CI building a fork's pull request where `nx.json` is writable but the build files are not. We have no evidence of exploitation in the wild.\n\n## Affected & Patched Versions\n\n| Package | Vulnerable | Patched |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `@nx/maven` | `>= 22.0.2, < 22.7.9`; `>= 23.0.0, < 23.1.2` | `22.7.9`, `23.1.2` |\n| `@nx/gradle` | `>= 21.0.0, < 22.7.9`; `>= 23.0.0, < 23.1.2` | `22.7.9`, `23.1.2` |\n\n> [!IMPORTANT]\n> Workspaces that register neither `@nx/maven` nor `@nx/gradle` in `nx.json` are unaffected — the vulnerable code only runs from those plugins' graph-construction paths, and no other Nx plugin shares this pattern.\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to **22.7.9** (22.x line) or **23.1.2** (23.x line) or later:\n\n```\nnx migrate 23.1.2\n```\n\nUpgrade both `nx` and the affected plugin (`@nx/maven` and/or `@nx/gradle`). The plugin's fix depends on code that ships in the `nx` package, so bumping the plugin without a matching `nx` upgrade will not resolve it.\n\nThere is no configuration to change — upgrading is the whole fix. If you cannot upgrade yet, only run `nx` commands in repositories you trust, since a malicious `nx.json` can execute code on a vulnerable version.\n\n## Details\n\nBoth plugins spawn their analyzer through a shell and interpolate `nx.json` plugin options into the command, so those option values are shell source. For Maven the injectable value is the `targetNamePrefix` option; for Gradle it is broader, since every plugin option is mapped into a `-P` argument and arbitrary option names are accepted, making both the name and value of any option injectable.\n\n## Credits\n\n- **Arkadiusz Marta** (RE:SOURCE) — Reporter\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `@nx/maven >= 22.0.2, < 22.7.9`\n- `@nx/maven >= 23.0.0, < 23.1.2`\n- `@nx/gradle >= 21.0.0, < 22.7.9`\n- `@nx/gradle >= 23.0.0, < 23.1.2`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `@nx/maven 22.7.9`\n- `@nx/maven 23.1.2`\n- `@nx/gradle 22.7.9`\n- `@nx/gradle 23.1.2`","depth":"twilight","depthScore":41,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":41.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}