CVE-2024-41122 Custom environment variables allow to alter execution flow of plugins in Woodpecker

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can inject malicious environment variables to alter plugin execution, leading to host takeover or secret extraction in Woodpecker CI/CD.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-41122?

CVE-2024-41122 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in woodpecker-ci woodpecker, published on 19 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Woodpecker is a simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility. The server allow to create any user who can trigger a pipeline run malicious workflows: 1. Those workflows can either lead to a host takeover that runs the agent executing the workflow. 2. Or allow to extract the secrets who would be normally provided to the plugins who's entrypoint are overwritten. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.7.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-74

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-41122?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker and go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker GoAll versionsNone
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker GoAll versions2.7.0
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker GoAll versions2.7.0
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2 GoAll versions2.7.0
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2 GoAll versions2.7.0
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2 GoAll versions2.7.0

Products include Woodpecker-Ci Woodpecker.

How do I fix CVE-2024-41122?

Upgrade go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker to 2.7.0 or later.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2024-41122 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41122 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-3wf2-2pq4-4rvc, GO-2024-2998.

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