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Medium · 5.0 CVE-2022-35954 EUVD-2022-6508GHSA-7r3h-m5j6-3q42

Delimiter injection vulnerability in @actions/core exportVariable

Published Aug 13, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
actions toolkit <= 1.9.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @actions/core < 1.9.1 1.9.1 GHSA-7r3h-m5j6-3q42

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