CVE-2024-42471

actions/artifact is the GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions. Versions of `actions/artifact` on the 2.x branch before 2.1.2 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when using `downloadArtifactInternal`, `downloadArtifactPublic`, or `streamExtractExternal` for extracting a specifically crafted artifact that contains path traversal filenames. Users are advised to upgrade to version 2.1.2 or higher. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2024-09-02

Last modified

2025-08-27

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Toolkit (Actions)
• Actions/artifact (Github)
• Actions Toolkit (Github)

References

• https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/1666
• https://github.com/actions/toolkit/security/advisories/GHSA-6q32-hq47-5qq3
• https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability