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TI-2025-38275 Aliases CVE-2025-61926GHSA-33f4-mjch-7fpr

Allstar Reviewbot has Authentication Bypass via Hard-coded Webhook Secret

Priority MEDIUM 60CWE-453Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-798.

Summary

Allstar is a GitHub App to set and enforce security policies. In versions prior to 4.5, a vulnerability in Allstar’s Reviewbot component caused inbound webhook requests to be validated against a hard-coded, shared secret. The value used for the secret token was compiled into the Allstar binary and could not be configured at runtime. In practice, this meant that every deployment using Reviewbot would validate requests with the same secret unless the operator modified source code and rebuilt the component - an expectation that is not documented and is easy to miss. All Allstar releases prior to v4.5 that include the Reviewbot code path are affected. Deployments on v4.5 and later are not affected. Those who have not enabled or exposed the Reviewbot endpoint are not exposed to this issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00502 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed allstar (ossf): 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6github.com/ossf/allstar (Go): 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ossfallstarbefore 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d60.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6Patch availableCNA
—github.com/ossf/allstar (Go)before 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d60.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6Patch availableGHSA-33f4-mjch-7fpr
  • allstar Vendorossf Affected before 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 Fixed in 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/ossf/allstar (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 Fixed in 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 Patch available GHSA-33f4-mjch-7fpr

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA allstar (ossf) Fixed in 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6
  • Fix · GHSA-33f4-mjch-7fpr github.com/ossf/allstar (Go) Fixed in 0.0.0-20250721181116-e004ecb540d6 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-61926
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-33f4-mjch-7fpr

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