🛡️ GHSA-cxww-7g56-2vh6 — download-artifact (CVE-2024-42471)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

@actions/download-artifact has an Arbitrary File Write via artifact extraction

Impact

Versions of actions/download-artifact before 4.1.3 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when downloading and extracting a specifically crafted artifact that contains path traversal filenames.

Patches

Upgrade to version 4.1.3 or higher. Alternatively use 'v4' tag which points to the latest and secure version.

References

  • https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
  • https://github.com/actions/download-artifact/releases/tag/v4.1.3
  • https://github.com/actions/download-artifact/pull/299

CVE

CVE-2024-42471

Credits

Justin Taft from Google

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

Weakness class

GHSA-cxww-7g56-2vh6 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

GHSA-cxww-7g56-2vh6 is recorded against 1 package.

  • actions/download-artifact (from 4.0.0 up to 4.1.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 September 2024 and last revised on 22 January 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
snyk.io (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-09-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-01-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
actions/download-artifact 4.0.0 4.1.3

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