Description
A code injection vulnerability exists in the huggingface/text-generation-inference repository, specifically within the `autodocs.yml` workflow file. The vulnerability arises from the insecure handling of the `github.head_ref` user input, which is used to dynamically construct a command for installing a software package. An attacker can exploit this by forking the repository, creating a branch with a malicious payload as the name, and then opening a pull request to the base repository. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution within the context of the GitHub Actions runner. This issue affects versions up to and including v2.0.0 and was fixed in version 2.0.0.
Published: 2024-05-30
Score: 4.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-2148 A code injection vulnerability exists in the huggingface/text-generation-inference repository, specifically within the `autodocs.yml` workflow file. The vulnerability arises from the insecure handling of the `github.head_ref` user input, which is used to dynamically construct a command for installing a software package. An attacker can exploit this by forking the repository, creating a branch with a malicious payload as the name, and then opening a pull request to the base repository. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution within the context of the GitHub Actions runner. This issue affects versions up to and including v2.0.0 and was fixed in version 2.0.0.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-qq99-p57r-g3v7 code injection vulnerability exists in the huggingface/text-generation-inference repository
History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0035}

epss

{'score': 0.00272}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntr_ai

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:26:57.025Z

Reserved: 2024-04-17T16:09:05.359Z

Link: CVE-2024-3924

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:26:57.025Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-05-30T15:15:49.653

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-3924

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