CVE-2023-22726 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting the 'act' project, which allows local execution of GitHub Actions. The artifact server in 'act' fails to sanitize path inputs, enabling an attacker to download and overwrite arbitrary files on the host system from a GitHub Action, potentially leading to privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While a fix is available in version 0.2.40, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.2.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:act_project:act:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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