significant-gravitas autogpt up to 0.5.0 Pull Request workflow-checker.yml code injection

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in significant-gravitas autogpt up to 0.5.0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file workflow-checker.yml of the component Pull Request Handler. The manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-8156. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in significant-gravitas autogpt up to 0.5.0. This issue affects an unknown code of the file workflow-checker.yml of the component Pull Request Handler. 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. The summary by CVE is:

A command injection vulnerability exists in the workflow-checker.yml workflow of significant-gravitas/autogpt. The untrusted user input `github.head.ref` is used insecurely, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary commands. This vulnerability affects versions up to and including the latest version. An attacker can exploit this by creating a branch name with a malicious payload and opening a pull request, potentially leading to reverse shell access or theft of sensitive tokens and keys.

It is possible to read the advisory at huntr.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-8156 since 08/25/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.5.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 1df7d527dd37dff8363dc162fb58d300f072e302 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.

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• significant-gravitas

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• autogpt

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5.0

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/significant-gravitas/autogpt/

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