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High · 7.4 CVE-2026-45539 EUVD-2026-30561GHSA-q5pp-gvjg-h7v4PYSEC-2026-2377

Microsoft APM: Symlinks under `.apm/prompts/` and `.apm/agents/` are dereferenced during `apm install`, copying host-local file contents into the project tree

Published May 15, 2026 · Updated May 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Microsoft APM is an open-source, community-driven dependency manager for AI agents. From 0.5.4 to 0.12.4, two primitive integrators in apm-cli enumerate package files with bare Path.glob() / Path.rglob() calls and read each match with Path.read_text(), transparently following symbolic links. A symlink committed inside a remote APM dependency under .apm/prompts/<x>.prompt.md or .apm/agents/<x>.agent.md is preserved verbatim into apm_modules/ on clone and then dereferenced during integration, with the resolved content written as a regular file into the project's deploy directories. The package content_hash, the pre-deploy SecurityGate scan, and apm audit do not flag this. The deploy roots are not added to the auto-generated .gitignore, so the resulting files are staged by git add by default. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.13.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
microsoft apm >= 0.5.4, < 0.13.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI apm >= 0.5.4, < 0.13.0 0.13.0 GHSA-q5pp-gvjg-h7v4

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