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Medium · 4.6 CVE-2025-61926 EUVD-2025-33544GHSA-33f4-mjch-7fprGO-2025-4018

Allstar Reviewbot has Authentication Bypass via Hard-coded Webhook Secret

Published Oct 9, 2025 · Updated Oct 16, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Allstar is a GitHub App to set and enforce security policies. In versions prior to 4.5, a vulnerability in Allstar’s Reviewbot component caused inbound webhook requests to be validated against a hard-coded, shared secret. The value used for the secret token was compiled into the Allstar binary and could not be configured at runtime. In practice, this meant that every deployment using Reviewbot would validate requests with the same secret unless the operator modified source code and rebuilt the component - an expectation that is not documented and is easy to miss. All Allstar releases prior to v4.5 that include the Reviewbot code path are affected. Deployments on v4.5 and later are not affected. Those who have not enabled or exposed the Reviewbot endpoint are not exposed to this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ossf allstar < 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 —

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
SLES 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20251023T162509-150000.1.110.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3799-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20251023T162509-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15666-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20251023T162509-150000.1.110.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3799-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/ossf/allstar < 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 GHSA-33f4-mjch-7fpr

Advisories 3

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