Prompt injection protection bypass in JetBrains Junie GitHub Action
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
JetBrains Junie GitHub Action before 1.6.4 has a flaw in its prompt injection protection, which validates input before decoding it (CWE-180). A remote attacker without privileges can bypass the protection with HTML-encoded characters when a user interacts with crafted content, which can affect confidentiality and integrity.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Description from the CNA
In JetBrains Junie GitHub Action before 1.6.4 prompt injection protection could be bypassed via HTML-encoded characters
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Update JetBrains Junie GitHub Action to version 1.6.4.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
- Fix · CNA Junie GitHub Action (JetBrains) Fixed in 1.6.4
Timeline
- 2026-11-06 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-123851
- 2026-11-06 Alias added: GHSA-p3f5-v6j7-7234
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-06 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
References
More JetBrains vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-45031 Deserialization of untrusted data in JetBrains TeamCity KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-18053 In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.11.4 authentication bypass allowing to perform admin actions was possible KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-22884 In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.05.4 authentication bypass leading to RCE on TeamCity Server was possible KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-18054 In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.11.4 path traversal allowing to perform limited admin actions was possible KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3
- TI-2024-15905 In JetBrains TeamCity before 2023.11.3 authentication bypass leading to RCE was possible CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-24589 Insufficiently protected credentials in JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-123851 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-123851 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p3f5-v6j7-7234 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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