prefecthq/prefect · Security

Prefect has an Argument Injection issue

GHSA ID
GHSA-cw25-2p92-7f75
CVE ID
CVE-2026-3515
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
8.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3
8.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Description

A vulnerability in the GitHubRepository block of the prefect-github integration in Prefect version 3.6.18 allows an attacker to inject arbitrary git command-line options via the reference field. The reference field is concatenated directly into a git clone command string without proper sanitization, and then parsed by shlex.split(). This enables injection of options such as -c, leading to potential Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), credential theft, or remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability affects both the aget_directory() and get_directory() methods in src/integrations/prefect-github/prefect_github/repository.py. This issue does not affect the GitLab and BitBucket integrations, which use a safer list-based command construction approach.

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