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Critical · 9.1 Public exploit CVE-2025-47928 EUVD-2025-28133

Spotipy repo vulnerable to secrets exfiltration via `pull_request_target`

Published May 15, 2025 · Updated May 15, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Spotipy is a Python library for the Spotify Web API. As of commit 4f5759dbfb4506c7b6280572a4db1aabc1ac778d, using `pull_request_target` on `.github/workflows/integration_tests.yml` followed by the checking out the head.sha of a forked PR can be exploited by attackers, since untrusted code can be executed having full access to secrets (from the base repo). By exploiting the vulnerability is possible to exfiltrate `GITHUB_TOKEN` and secrets `SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID`, `SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET`. In particular `GITHUB_TOKEN` which can be used to completely overtake the repo since the token has content write privileges. The `pull_request_target` in GitHub Actions is a major security concern—especially in public repositories—because it executes untrusted code from a PR, but with the context of the base repository, including access to its secrets. Commit 9dfb7177b8d7bb98a5a6014f8e6436812a47576f reverted the change that caused the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
spotipy-dev spotipy = 4f5759dbfb4506c7b6280572a4db1aabc1ac778d —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 spotipy No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS spotipy No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 spotipy No fix yet —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • pvharmo2/gha-lab-2f775f277c ★ 0 · Sep 4, 2026

    Authorized lab reproduction of CVE-2025-47928 (spotipy-dev/spotipy pull_request_target secrets exfiltration) — snapshot at vulnerable commit 4f5759d

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