CVE-2022-35954 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-35954: Delimiter injection vulnerability in @actions/core exportVariable

Vendor Actions
Product toolkit
Weakness CWE-77
Published August 13, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

5.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The GitHub Actions ToolKit provides a set of packages to make creating actions easier. The `core.exportVariable` function uses a well known delimiter that attackers can use to break out of that specific variable and assign values to other arbitrary variables. Workflows that write untrusted values to the `GITHUB_ENV` file may cause the path or other environment variables to be modified without the intention of the workflow or action author. Users should upgrade to `@actions/core v1.9.1`. If you are unable to upgrade the `@actions/core` package, you can modify your action to ensure that any user input does not contain the delimiter `_GitHubActionsFileCommandDelimeter_` before calling `core.exportVariable`.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 13, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated

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