CVE-2024-8156 Command Injection in significant-gravitas/autogpt

High 8.8 Published 20 Mar 2025 Updated 15 Oct 2025

Attackers can inject arbitrary commands via branch names in pull requests, leading to reverse shell access and token theft in AutoGPT's CI workflow.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-8156?

CVE-2024-8156 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in significant-gravitas/autogpt, published on 20 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A command injection vulnerability exists in the workflow-checker.yml workflow of significant-gravitas/autogpt. The untrusted user input `github.head.ref` is used insecurely, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary commands. This vulnerability affects versions up to and including the latest version. An attacker can exploit this by creating a branch name with a malicious payload and opening a pull request, potentially leading to reverse shell access or theft of sensitive tokens and keys.

Weakness: CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8156?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Agpt Autogpt Classic.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8156?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8156 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2024-8156 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-8156 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rrfw-qqmx-gqwx.