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🛡️ CVE-2024-54132 — cli

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Downloading malicious GitHub Actions workflow artifact results in path traversal vulnerability

Summary

A security vulnerability has been identified in GitHub CLI that could create or overwrite files in unintended directories when users download a malicious GitHub Actions workflow artifact through gh run download.

Details

This vulnerability stems from a GitHub Actions workflow artifact named .. when downloaded using gh run download. The artifact name and --dir flag are used to determine the artifact’s download path. When the artifact is named .., the resulting files within the artifact are extracted exactly 1 directory higher than the specified --dir flag value.

In 2.63.1, gh run download will not download artifacts named .. and . and instead exit with the following error message:

```

error downloading ..: would result in path traversal

```

Impact

Successful exploitation heightens the risk of local path traversal attack vectors exactly 1 directory higher than intended.

Remediation and Mitigation

1. Upgrade gh to 2.63.1

2. Implement additional validation to ensure artifact filenames do not contain potentially dangerous patterns, such as .., to prevent path traversal risks.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Attack requirements: None — no deployment-specific condition has to hold.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-54132 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2024-54132 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • github.com/cli/cli
  • github.com/cli/cli/v2
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 4 December 2024 and last revised on 4 February 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 (Package)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/cli/cli has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

CVE-2024-54132 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/cli/cli — —
github.com/cli/cli/v2 — —
unknown — —

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