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CVE-2024-42370: Litestar repository vulnerable to Environment Variable injection in `docs-preview.yml` workflow

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. In versions 2.10.0 and prior, Litestar's `docs-preview.yml` workflow is vulnerable to Environment Variable injection which may lead to secret exfiltration and repository manipulation. This issue grants a malicious actor the permission to write issues, read metadata, and write pull requests. In addition, the `DOCS_PREVIEW_DEPLOY_TOKEN` is exposed to the attacker. Commit 84d351e96aaa2a1338006d6e7221eded161f517b contains a fix for this issue.

Affected products

• litestar-org Litestar: through 2.10.0

References

• https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/actions/runs/10081936962/job/27875077668#step:1:17
• https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/blob/ffaf5616b19f6f0f4128209c8b49dbcb41568aa2/.github/workflows/docs-preview.yml
• https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/commit/84d351e96aaa2a1338006d6e7221eded161f517b
• https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-4hq2-rpgc-r8r7

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