CVSS 4.0
6.3 mediumCVSS: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:GreenCVE-2024-54132
Medium (6.3). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/cli/cli/v2 2.63.1.
The GitHub CLI is GitHub’s official command line tool. 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. 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.63.1.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-2m9h-r57g-45pj | Go | github.com/cli/cli/v2 | <2.63.1 | 2.63.1 |
| GHSA-2m9h-r57g-45pj | Go | github.com/cli/cli | <=1.14.0 | no fix published |
| GO-2024-3310 | Go | github.com/cli/cli | all versions | no fix published |
| GO-2024-3310 | Go | github.com/cli/cli/v2 | <2.63.1 | 2.63.1 |