CVE-2025-54594

react-native-bottom-tabs: Arbitrary code execution in GitHub Actions canary workflow leads to secret exfiltration

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Aug 5, 2025
Updated
Aug 6, 2025
Reserved
Jul 25, 2025

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Description

react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. In versions 0.9.2 and below, the github/workflows/release-canary.yml GitHub Actions repository workflow improperly used the pull_request_target event trigger, which allowed for untrusted code from a forked pull request to be executed in a privileged context. An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
react-native-bottom-tabscallstackincubator
  • <= 0.9.2Affected

References

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