GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-gppm-hq3p-h4rp Git credentials are exposed in Atlantis logs

HIGH Published 2024-11-08 Modified 2026-06-26 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-52009
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/runatlantis/atlantis
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Weaknesses
CWE-532
Reviewed
2024-11-08

Affected packages

• Go github.com/runatlantis/atlantis: < 0.30.0 → fixed in 0.30.0

Description

Summary _Short summary of the problem. Make the impact and severity as clear as possible. For example: An unsafe deserialization vulnerability allows any unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the server._ Atlantis logs contains GitHub credentials (tokens `ghs_...`) when they are rotated. This enables an attacker able to read these logs to impersonate Atlantis application and to perform actions on GitHub. When Atlantis is used to administer a GitHub organization, this enables getting administration privileges on the organization. This was reported in https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/issues/4060 and fixed in https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/pull/4667 . The fix was included in Atlantis v0.30.0. Details _Give all details on the vulnerability. Pointing to the incriminated source code is very helpful for the maintainer._ While auditing the Kubernetes/Argo CD/Atlantis deployment of some company, the following set-up was encountered: • Most employees have read-only access to Argo CD, enabling them to see the health of deployed applications. • Atlantis was deployed as an Argo CD application. • Atlantis was used to manage the configuration of a GitHub organization (such as team members), using Terraform's GitHub integration. Atlantis logs on Argo CD contained lines such as: ```json {"level":"debug","ts":"2024-11-07T17:58:30.636Z","caller":"vcs/gh_app_creds_rotator.go:58","msg":"Refreshing git tokens for Github App","json":{}} {"level":"debug","ts":"2024-11-07T17:58:30.637Z","caller":"vcs/gh_app_creds_rotator.go:64","msg":"token ghs_[REDACTED]","json":{}} {"level":"debug","ts":"2024-11-07T17:58:30.637Z","caller":"vcs/git_cred_writer.go:36","msg":"git credentials file has expected contents, not modifying","json":{}} ``` This enabled employees with read-only access to Argo CD to get administration privileges on the GitHub organization, compromising all repositories. As some repositories were used for Infrastructure-as-Code deployment (with Atlantis), this enabled the security auditors to get cluster admin privileges on most Kubernetes clusters. While the set-up "most employees have read-only access to Argo CD" can be seen as dangerous, this should not incur such security risk (cf. https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/security/). The main issue here was that the logs contained privileged GitHub tokens as they were obtained by Atlantis. This issue was already reported (https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/issues/4060) and fixed (https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/pull/4667) but no security advisory was published on https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/security and no CVE was assigned (https://app.opencve.io/cve/?&vendor=runatlantis&product=atlantis only lists CVE-2022-24912, which is unrelated). Could you please publish a security advisory? PoC _Complete instructions, including specific configuration details, to reproduce the vulnerability._ cf. https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/issues/4060 for more details. Impact _What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?_ • This leaks sensitive GitHub tokens in the log files (CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File). • This could enable anyone with log read access to compromiseGitHub organizations managed by Atlantis. • This impact at least users using Atlantis with Github application and integration.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-52009 Atlantis is a self-hosted golang application that listens for Terraform pull request events via webhooks. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness

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