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CVE-2026-63728

Gitleaks prior to 8.30.1 contains a template injection vulnerability that allows attackers who can supply or influence report templates to read arbitrary environment variables and exfiltrate sensitive data by leveraging non-hermetic Sprig template functions. Attackers can craft malicious report templates using the env, expandenv, and getHostByName functions to extract credentials, tokens, and API keys from the host process and exfiltrate them through DNS queries, including secrets discovered dur
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:92b8c1448f311a0dcc400f663d11fcdc7c47d2a60a7a1af70117b7623fc4b320
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cvss · 2 assertions

{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"LOCAL","baseScore":8.1,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"ACTIVE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":6.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"CHANGED","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"gitleaks","vendor":"gitleaks","versions":[{"lessThan":"8.30.1","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

2 source assertions
{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"LOCAL","baseScore":8.1,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"ACTIVE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":6.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"CHANGED","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-1336","description":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

5 source assertions
{"name":"Blog Post","url":"https://fatihhcelik.github.io/posts/gitleaks-abusing-sprig-for-exfiltration/#the-fix"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://fatihhcelik.github.io/posts/gitleaks-abusing-sprig-for-exfiltration/#the-fix"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"name":"Product","tags":["product"],"url":"https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"name":"Patch Commit","tags":["patch"],"url":"https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/commit/83d9cd684c87d95d656c1458ef04895a7f1cbd8e"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"tags":["third-party-advisory"],"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gitleaks-secret-exfiltration-via-non-hermetic-sprig-template-functions-in-report-template-feature"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:43bbf24e842444486cbc2c46af3bfa9e0ddbd7b2526a3be9d7fb4238f11dad7d · sha256:67273b0951de05cb… · /containers/cna/references/3

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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