CVE-2025-32955 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-32955: Harden-Runner Evasion of 'disable-sudo' policy

Vendor Step-Security
Product harden-runner
Weakness CWE-268
Published April 21, 2025
Last update April 22, 2025

CVSS base score

6.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. Versions from 0.12.0 to before 2.12.0 are vulnerable to `disable-sudo` bypass. Harden-Runner includes a policy option `disable-sudo` to prevent the GitHub Actions runner user from using sudo. This is implemented by removing the runner user from the sudoers file. However, this control can be bypassed as the runner user, being part of the docker group, can interact with the Docker daemon to launch privileged containers or access the host filesystem. This allows the attacker to regain root access or restore the sudoers file, effectively bypassing the restriction. This issue has been patched in version 2.12.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 21, 2025 CVE published
April 22, 2025 Record updated