CVE-2025-32955

MEDIUM

Harden-Runner <2.12.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. Versions from 0.12.0 to before 2.12.0 are vulnerable to `disable-sudo` bypass. Harden-Runner includes a policy option `disable-sudo` to prevent the GitHub Actions runner user from using sudo. This is implemented by removing the runner user from the sudoers file. However, this control can be bypassed as the runner user, being part of the docker group, can interact with the Docker daemon to launch privileged containers or access the host filesystem. This allows the attacker to regain root access or restore the sudoers file, effectively bypassing the restriction. This issue has been patched in version 2.12.0.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-268 CWE-269
Status published
Products (2)
GitHub Actions/step-security/harden-runner 0.12.0 - 2.12.0GitHub Actions
step-security/harden-runner >= 0.12.0, < 2.12.0
Published Apr 21, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026