woodpecker-ci/woodpecker · Security
Woodpecker's custom environment variables allow to alter execution flow of plugins
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-3wf2-2pq4-4rvc
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-41122
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
The server allow to create any user who can trigger a pipeline run malicious workflows:
- Those workflows can either lead to a host takeover that runs the agent executing the workflow.
- Or allow to extract the secrets who would be normally provided to the plugins who's entrypoint are overwritten.
Patches
https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3909 https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3934
Workarounds
Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading? Enable the "gated" repo feature and review each change upfront of running
References
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3909
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3934
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker-security/issues/10 (info will be published later at https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/issues/3929)
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/issues/3929 (info will be published later once we got adoption of the update)
Credits
CWEs
- CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
References
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/security/advisories/GHSA-3wf2-2pq4-4rvc ↗
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/issues/3929 ↗
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3909 ↗
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3934 ↗
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/commit/8aa3e5ec82c92eca3279e4be68625111eeedf1c4 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41122 ↗
- https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker-security/issues/10 ↗
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2998 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3wf2-2pq4-4rvc ↗