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CVE-2025-54594: react-native-bottom-tabs: Arbitrary code execution in GitHub Actions canary workflow leads to secret exfiltration

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. In versions 0.9.2 and below, the github/workflows/release-canary.yml GitHub Actions repository workflow improperly used the pull_request_target event trigger, which allowed for untrusted code from a forked pull request to be executed in a privileged context. An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.

Affected products

• callstackincubator react-native-bottom-tabs: through 0.9.2

References

• https://callstack.notion.site/Post-Incident-Security-Measures-GitHub-Actions-Workflow-Vulnerability-2405d027c0f8804ab7f7cdfb43366a31
• https://github.com/callstackincubator/react-native-bottom-tabs/commit/9e1c9c61d742c435ac5e0901b7e0c9249b9fc70c
• https://github.com/callstackincubator/react-native-bottom-tabs/security/advisories/GHSA-588g-38p4-gr6x

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