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code injection vulnerability exists in the huggingface/text-generation-inference repository

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 2, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 2, 2024

Package

pip text-generation (pip)

Affected versions

< 2.0.0

Patched versions

2.0.0

Description

A code injection vulnerability exists in the huggingface/text-generation-inference repository, specifically within the autodocs.yml workflow file. The vulnerability arises from the insecure handling of the github.head_ref user input, which is used to dynamically construct a command for installing a software package. An attacker can exploit this by forking the repository, creating a branch with a malicious payload as the name, and then opening a pull request to the base repository. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution within the context of the GitHub Actions runner. This issue affects versions up to and including v2.0.0 and was fixed in version 2.0.0.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 30, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 2, 2024
Reviewed Jun 2, 2024
Last updated Jun 2, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-3924

GHSA ID

GHSA-qq99-p57r-g3v7

Source code

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