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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-34042 EUVD-2026-17286GHSA-x34h-54cw-9825GO-2026-4890

act: actions/cache server allows malicious cache injection

Published Mar 31, 2026 · Updated Mar 31, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

act is a project which allows for local running of github actions. Prior to version 0.2.86, act's built in actions/cache server listens to connections on all interfaces and allows anyone who can connect to it including someone anywhere on the internet to create caches with arbitrary keys and retrieve all existing caches. If they can predict which cache keys will be used by local actions, they can create malicious caches containing whatever files they please most likely allowing arbitrary remote code execution within the docker container. This issue has been patched in version 0.2.86.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nektos act < 0.2.86 —

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
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260402T184258-150000.1.158.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1205-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/nektos/act < 0.2.86 0.2.86 GHSA-x34h-54cw-9825

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