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A vulnerability was found in huggingface text-generation-inference up to 1.x. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file autodocs.yml. Such manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-3924. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in huggingface text-generation-inference up to 1.x and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file autodocs.yml. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at huntr.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-3924 since 04/17/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

Upgrading to version 2.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 88702d876383f7200eccf67e28ba00500dc804bb is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• huggingface

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• text-generation-inference

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• 1.x

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/

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