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Critical · 9.1 Public exploit CVE-2025-54594 EUVD-2025-23669

react-native-bottom-tabs: Arbitrary code execution in GitHub Actions canary workflow leads to secret exfiltration

Published Aug 5, 2025 · Updated Aug 6, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. In versions 0.9.2 and below, the github/workflows/release-canary.yml GitHub Actions repository workflow improperly used the pull_request_target event trigger, which allowed for untrusted code from a forked pull request to be executed in a privileged context. An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
callstackincubator react-native-bottom-tabs <= 0.9.2 —

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GitHub 1 repository

  • pvharmo2/gha-lab-aa1cbc9bcf ★ 0 · Sep 4, 2026

    Authorized security-research reproduction of CVE-2025-54594 (GHSA-588g-38p4-gr6x): privileged issue_comment-triggered canary release workflow checking out untrusted fork code and running its npm scri…

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