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High · 8.1 Public exploit CVE-2023-26493 EUVD-2023-30293

Command Injection in Cocos Engine workflow

Published Mar 27, 2023 · Updated Feb 19, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Vendor: cocos Product: cocos-engine

Description

Cocos Engine is an open-source framework for building 2D & 3D real-time rendering and interactive content. In the github repo for Cocos Engine the `web-interface-check.yml` was subject to command injection. The `web-interface-check.yml` was triggered when a pull request was opened or updated and contained the user controllable field `(${{ github.head_ref }} – the name of the fork’s branch)`. This would allow an attacker to take over the GitHub Runner and run custom commands (potentially stealing secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN) and altering the repository. The workflow has since been removed for the repository. There are no actions required of users.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cocos cocos-engine < 6d06aefa26 —

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GitHub 1 repository

  • pvharmo2/gha-lab-fb32aba4a3 ★ 0 · Aug 31, 2026

    Authorized lab reproduction of CVE-2023-26493 (GHSL-2023-027): command injection via github.head_ref in cocos-engine's <Web> Interface check pull_request_target workflow

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