CVE-2023-2479 — OS Command Injection in GitHub repository appium/appium-desktop prior to v1

OS Command Injection in GitHub repository appium/appium-desktop prior to v1.22.3-4.

01What is this vulnerability?

OS Command Injection in GitHub repository appium/appium-desktop prior to v1.22.3-4.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
appium	appium/appium	desktop — unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-05-02T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-30T16:28:31.038Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/fbdeec3c-d197-4a68-a547-7f93fb9594b4
• github.com — https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/commit/12a988aa08b9822e97056a09486c9beb…