CVE-2024-3924

Description

A code injection vulnerability exists in the huggingface/text-generation-inference repository, specifically within the `autodocs.yml` workflow file. The vulnerability arises from the insecure handling of the `github.head_ref` user input, which is used to dynamically construct a command for installing a software package. An attacker can exploit this by forking the repository, creating a branch with a malicious payload as the name, and then opening a pull request to the base repository. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution within the context of the GitHub Actions runner. This issue affects versions up to and including v2.0.0 and was fixed in version 2.0.0.

How to fix CVE-2024-3924

To remediate CVE-2024-3924, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 2.0.0 or later

Is CVE-2024-3924 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 2.0.0

CVSS scores

References (4)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3924
• PATCHgithub.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference
• WEBgithub.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/commit/88702d876383f7200eccf67e28ba00500dc804bb
• WEBhuntr.com/bounties/8af92fc2-0103-4d29-bb28-c3893154c422