GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-x34h-54cw-9825 act: actions/cache server allows malicious cache injection
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-34042
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/nektos/act
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-27
Affected packages
• Go github.com/nektos/act: < 0.2.86 → fixed in 0.2.86
Description
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 one can predict which cache keys will be used by local actions, one can create malicious caches containing whatever files one pleases, most likely allowing arbitrary remote code execution within the Docker container.
Discovery
Discovered while discussing forgejo/runner#294.
Proposed Mitigation
It was discussed to append a secret to `ACTIONS_CACHE_URL` to retain compatibility with GitHub's cache action and still allow authorization. Forgejo is considering also encoding which repo is currently being run in CI into the secret in the URL to prevent unrelated repos using the same (probably global) runner from seeing each other's caches.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-34042 act is a project which allows for local running of github actions. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/nektos/act/security/advisories/GHSA-x34h-54cw-9825 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34042 advisory
- https://github.com/nektos/act/commit/c28c27e141e8b54f9853de82f421ee09846751f7 web
- https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner/issues/294 web
- https://github.com/nektos/act package
- https://github.com/nektos/act/releases/tag/v0.2.86 web