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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.3

CVE-2024-54132 json

GitHub CLI allows downloading malicious GitHub Actions workflow artifact to result in path traversal vulnerability

published 2024-12-04 23 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-3409 , GHSA-2m9h-r57g-45pj , GO-2024-3310

cvss
6.3
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The GitHub CLI is GitHub’s official command line tool. A security vulnerability has been identified in GitHub CLI that could create or overwrite files in unintended directories when users download a malicious GitHub Actions workflow artifact through gh run download. This vulnerability stems from a GitHub Actions workflow artifact named .. when downloaded using gh run download. The artifact name and --dir flag are used to determine the artifact’s download path. When the artifact is named .., the resulting files within the artifact are extracted exactly 1 directory higher than the specified --dir flag value. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.63.1.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/cli/cli/v2 2.63.1
  • github cli 2.63.1
  • gh Debian 13 2.46.0-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-54132

  • gh Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 2.45.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-54132

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241209T183251-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14567-1

  • gh Azure Linux 3.0 2.62.0-2
  • gh CBL-Mariner 2.0 2.13.0-23

azure linux advisories AZL-53996AZL-54009

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-54132 updated cvss 4.3

gh: GitHub CLI allows downloading malicious GitHub Actions workflow artifact to result in path traversal vulnerability

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green
CNA 4.0 6.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Green

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/cli/cli/v2
<2.63.1
2.63.1
go github.com/cli/cli
<=1.14.0
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • cli cli

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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