CVE-2025-32955

Harden-Runner Evasion of 'disable-sudo' policy

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Apr 21, 2025
Updated
Apr 22, 2025
Reserved
Apr 14, 2025

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Description

Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. Versions from 0.12.0 to before 2.12.0 are vulnerable to `disable-sudo` bypass. Harden-Runner includes a policy option `disable-sudo` to prevent the GitHub Actions runner user from using sudo. This is implemented by removing the runner user from the sudoers file. However, this control can be bypassed as the runner user, being part of the docker group, can interact with the Docker daemon to launch privileged containers or access the host filesystem. This allows the attacker to regain root access or restore the sudoers file, effectively bypassing the restriction. This issue has been patched in version 2.12.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.0 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
harden-runnerstep-security
  • >= 0.12.0, < 2.12.0Affected

References

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