{"id":84463,"date":"2025-10-23T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:19:59","slug":"cve-2025-58178-critical-command-injection-vulnerability-in-sonarqube-server-and-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-58178-critical-command-injection-vulnerability-in-sonarqube-server-and-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-58178: Critical Command Injection Vulnerability in SonarQube Server and Cloud<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A significant flaw has been identified in SonarQube Scan GitHub Action versions 4 to 5.3.0. The vulnerability, designated as CVE-2025-58178, is a high-risk security flaw due to the potential for command injection and could affect a broad range of organizations utilizing SonarQube for static analysis and code quality control. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43596-insecure-file-system-permissions-vulnerability-in-msp360-backup-8-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91413\">vulnerability poses a severe threat to system<\/a> security and data integrity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-58178<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS: 7.8)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43931-potential-system-compromise-via-flask-boilerplate-s-password-reset-feature\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91486\">Potential for system compromise<\/a> and data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2807850312\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>SonarQube Server | 4 to 5.3.0<br \/>\nSonarQube Cloud | 4 to 5.3.0<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flaw lies in the SonarQube Scan GitHub Action, which fails to adequately sanitize input arguments, treating them as shell expressions. This lack of proper input validation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43557-critical-vulnerability-in-animate-allows-arbitrary-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91567\">allows an attacker to inject arbitrary<\/a> commands, which will then be executed by the system. This could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-20681-wlan-ap-driver-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91595\">lead to unauthorized system<\/a> access or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3098699236\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>A conceptual example of how this vulnerability might be exploited could involve sending a malicious payload embedded within an argument to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-53104-command-injection-vulnerability-in-gluestack-ui-s-github-actions-workflow\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"92082\">SonarQube<\/a> Scan GitHub Action. The argument, treated as a shell expression, might then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-45479-arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerability-in-educoder-challenges-v1-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91522\">execute an arbitrary<\/a> command, compromising system security. Below is a hypothetical example:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">sonarqube-scan --target &quot;example.com; rm -rf \/&quot;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the injected command `rm -rf \/` would cause the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-2932-arbitrary-file-deletion-vulnerability-in-jkdevkit-plugin-for-wordpress\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91505\">deletion of all files<\/a> in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview A significant flaw has been identified in SonarQube Scan GitHub Action versions 4 to 5.3.0. The vulnerability, designated as CVE-2025-58178, is a high-risk security flaw due to the potential for command injection and could affect a broad range of organizations utilizing SonarQube for static analysis and code quality control. This vulnerability poses a severe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[79],"product":[],"attack_vector":[78],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-84463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","vendor-github","attack_vector-injection"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84463"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85290,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84463\/revisions\/85290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=84463"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=84463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}