CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-48908

MediumCVSS 6.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.39%

30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs

Summary

The lychee link checking action for Markdown, HTML, and text files prior to version 2.0.2 contains a potential arbitrary code injection vulnerability in lychee-setup of the composite action at action.yml. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.2.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can inject and execute arbitrary code in the context of the GitHub action, potentially compromising the repository or CI/CD pipeline. The risk is high for projects using this action.

Recommendation

Update the lychee action to version 2.0.2 or later. Check whether unauthorized code execution occurred in pipelines using the vulnerable version.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

lychee link checking action checks links in Markdown, HTML, and text files using lychee. Prior to version 2.0.2, there is a potential attack of arbitrary code injection vulnerability in lychee-setup of the composite action at action.yml. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.2.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS