Advisories

cal.com Repository Takeover via pull_request_target Workflow

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severity
critical
date
Affecting
  • cal.diy

CWE
  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
CVSS
8.5
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H
Credit
jsoref
Description
cal.com (calcom repository, later renamed cal.diy) is affected by a repository takeover vulnerability in its GitHub Actions workflows. The workflow pr.yml uses the pull_request_target trigger with the repository's default write permissions and passes them down to check-types.yml. check-types.yml then performs a 'dangerous' checkout of the attacker-submitted pull request code (via the dangerous-git-checkout action) and subsequently executes it (through yarn install and package.json scripts). An attacker can open a pull request whose code runs arbitrary commands with the repository's write-scoped GITHUB_TOKEN, allowing them to push commits, merge or mutate pull requests, add or delete comments, and delete or force-push branches, thereby compromising the repository. The main branch is affected; no patched version is available.

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