🛡️ CVE-2024-41122 — woodpecker

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Woodpecker's custom environment variables allow to alter execution flow of plugins

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

  • Daniel Kilimnik [@D_K_Dev](https://x.com/D_K_Dev) (Neodyme AG)
  • Felipe Custodio Romero [@_localo_](https://x.com/_localo_) (Neodyme AG)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-41122 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker
  • go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2
  • woodpecker (fixed in 2.7.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 July 2024 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
pkg.go.dev (Web)

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-19
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-03-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2
woodpecker 2.7.0

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