CVE-2025-54594 react-native-bottom-tabs: Arbitrary code execution in GitHub Actions canary workflow leads to secret exfiltration
Attackers can execute arbitrary code in CI workflows via malicious pull requests, leading to secret exfiltration and potential supply chain compromise.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-54594?
CVE-2025-54594 is a critical code injection vulnerability in callstackincubator react-native-bottom-tabs, published on 5 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. In versions 0.9.2 and below, the github/workflows/release-canary.yml GitHub Actions repository workflow improperly used the pull_request_target event trigger, which allowed for untrusted code from a forked pull request to be executed in a privileged context. An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54594?
How do I fix CVE-2025-54594?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54594 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2025-54594 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-54594 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-588g-38p4-gr6x.