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CVE-2025-54956

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-669

Description

The gh package before 1.5.0 for R delivers an HTTP response in a data structure that includes the Authorization header from the corresponding HTTP request.

Affected products

• r-lib gh: before 1.5.0 — fixed in 1.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: r-lib gh 1.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/r-lib/gh/commit/b575d488c71318449cc6c8c989c617db29275848
• https://github.com/r-lib/gh/compare/v1.4.1...v1.5.0
• https://github.com/r-lib/gh/issues/222
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00021.html

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