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GHSA-x34h-54cw-9825 act: actions/cache server allows malicious cache injection

HIGH Published 2026-03-27 Modified 2026-03-31 Official page ↗
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