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code/js-command-injection
Command Injection: shell exec with user-controlled argument
What it detects
child_process.exec/execSync/spawn runs a shell command that includes untrusted input. Use execFile with an argv array instead.
How it runs
Applied line-by-line via a tagged regex with language-specific gating. Comments are skipped. Designed for high-confidence patterns where AST parsing would be overkill.
Found a false positive or want this rule tuned? File an issue. You can also suppress per-repo via a .repoguardignore line.