GPT-Pilot contains a command injection vulnerability in the Executor.run() method
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 11, 2026
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated May 27, 2026
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 11, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 11, 2026
Reviewed
May 27, 2026
Last updated
May 27, 2026
GPT-Pilot thru commit 0819827ce20346ef5f25b3fe29293cb448840565 (2025-09-03) contains a command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in the Executor.run() method. During project execution, when the system prompts the user to confirm or modify a command to be run, it accepts free-text input without proper validation. The user-supplied input is directly passed to asyncio.create_subprocess_shell() for execution. This allows an attacker to replace the intended command with arbitrary shell commands, leading to remote code execution with the privileges of the GPT-Pilot process.
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