CVE-2026-31900

Black's vulnerable version parsing leads to RCE in GitHub Action

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Mar 11, 2026
Updated
Mar 13, 2026
Reserved
Mar 9, 2026

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Description

Black is the uncompromising Python code formatter. Black provides a GitHub action for formatting code. This action supports an option, use_pyproject: true, for reading the version of Black to use from the repository pyproject.toml. A malicious pull request could edit pyproject.toml to use a direct URL reference to a malicious repository. This could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the GitHub Action. Attackers could then gain access to secrets or permissions available in the context of the action. Version 26.3.0 fixes this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
blackpsf
  • < 26.3.0Affected

References

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