CVE-2024-42471

Arbitrary File Write via artifact extraction in actions/artifact

State
Published
Severity
7.3 High
Published
Sep 2, 2024
Updated
Aug 27, 2025
Reserved
Aug 2, 2024

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Description

actions/artifact is the GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions. Versions of `actions/artifact` on the 2.x branch before 2.1.2 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when using `downloadArtifactInternal`, `downloadArtifactPublic`, or `streamExtractExternal` for extracting a specifically crafted artifact that contains path traversal filenames. Users are advised to upgrade to version 2.1.2 or higher. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
toolkitactions
  • >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.2Affected

References

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