TI-2024-28439 Aliases CVE-2024-42471 GHSA-6q32-hq47-5qq3

Arbitrary File Write via artifact extraction in actions/artifact

MEDIUM 45CWE-22Published 2024-09-02 · Updated 2025-08-27

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · High · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.03219 88th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed toolkit (actions): 2.1.2@actions/artifact (npm): 2.1.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
actions	toolkit	2.0.0 to before 2.1.2	2.1.2	Patch available	CNA
—	@actions/artifact (npm)	2.0.0 to before 2.1.2	2.1.2	Patch available	GHSA-6q32-hq47-5qq3

toolkit Vendoractions Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.1.2 Fixed in 2.1.2 Patch available CNA
@actions/artifact (npm) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.1.2 Fixed in 2.1.2 Patch available GHSA-6q32-hq47-5qq3

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:github:actions\/artifact::::::node.js::*	2.0.0 to before 2.1.7	Vulnerable	GitHub
cpe:2.3:a:github:actions_toolkit:-:::::::*	not specified by NVD	Vulnerable	GitHub

cpe:2.3:a:github:actions\/artifact:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* Versions 2.0.0 to before 2.1.7 Vulnerable ·GitHub
cpe:2.3:a:github:actions_toolkit:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·GitHub

Remediation

Fix · CNA toolkit (actions) Fixed in 2.1.2
Fix · GHSA-6q32-hq47-5qq3 @actions/artifact (npm) Fixed in 2.1.2 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-42471
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6q32-hq47-5qq3

References

Advisory 2

Other 6

TI-2025-05316 actions toolkit glob internal-pattern.ts globEscape redos CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3

Sources

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