{"id":"CVE-2025-54594","aliases":["EUVD-2025-23669","GHSA-588g-38p4-gr6x"],"status":"published","title":"react-native-bottom-tabs: Arbitrary code execution in GitHub Actions canary workflow leads to secret exfiltration","description":"react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. In versions 0.9.2 and below, the github/workflows/release-canary.yml GitHub Actions repository workflow improperly used the pull_request_target event trigger, which allowed for untrusted code from a forked pull request to be executed in a privileged context. An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.0054,"percentile":0.45768,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":true,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-269","CWE-94"],"published":"2025-08-05T23:31:53Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:42Z","exploits":[{"source":"pocgithub","id":"pvharmo2/gha-lab-aa1cbc9bcf","title":"pvharmo2/gha-lab-aa1cbc9bcf","date":"2026-09-04","url":"https://github.com/pvharmo2/gha-lab-aa1cbc9bcf"}],"products":[{"vendor":"callstackincubator","product":"react-native-bottom-tabs"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/callstackincubator/react-native-bottom-tabs/security/advisories/GHSA-588g-38p4-gr6x","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/callstackincubator/react-native-bottom-tabs/commit/9e1c9c61d742c435ac5e0901b7e0c9249b9fc70c","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://callstack.notion.site/Post-Incident-Security-Measures-GitHub-Actions-Workflow-Vulnerability-2405d027c0f8804ab7f7cdfb43366a31","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54594.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54594","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-54594","title":"react-native-bottom-tabs: Arbitrary code execution in GitHub Actions canary workflow leads to secret exfiltration","description":"react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. 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An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.","status":"published","published":"2025-08-05T23:31:53Z","modified":"2025-08-06T20:29:56Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:32:00.811941Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-54594","description":"react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. 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An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.","status":"published","published":"2025-08-05T23:31:53.399Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:42.911361592Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-269","CWE-94"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:50.863921Z"}]}}