CVE-2024-42471

HIGH

actions/artifact <2.1.2 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm

Description

actions/artifact is the GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions. Versions of `actions/artifact` on the 2.x branch before 2.1.2 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when using `downloadArtifactInternal`, `downloadArtifactPublic`, or `streamExtractExternal` for extracting a specifically crafted artifact that contains path traversal filenames. Users are advised to upgrade to version 2.1.2 or higher. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Exploits (2)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by cybersploit · pythonlocalnodejs
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52276
nomisec WORKING POC
by theMcSam · poc
https://github.com/theMcSam/CVE-2024-42471-PoC

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0771
EPSS Percentile 91.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (3)
actions/artifact 2.0.0 - 2.1.2npm
github/actions\/artifact 2.0.0 - 2.1.7
github/actions_toolkit
Published Sep 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026