CVE-2025-54415
dag-factory's CI/CD Workflow Allows for Repository Takeover and Secret Exfiltration
- Published
- Jul 26, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Sep 4, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 48.5%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
dag-factory is a library for Apache Airflow® to construct DAGs declaratively via configuration files. In versions 0.23.0a8 and below, a high-severity vulnerability has been identified in the cicd.yml workflow within the astronomer/dag-factory GitHub repository. The workflow, specifically when triggered by pull_request_target, is susceptible to exploitation, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code within the GitHub Actions runner environment. This misconfiguration enables an attacker to establish a reverse shell, exfiltrate sensitive secrets, including the highly-privileged GITHUB_TOKEN, and ultimately gain full control over the repository. This is fixed in version 0.23.0a9.
Sources
1- gha-lab-f894926966Research
Authorized security-research reproduction lab for CVE-2025-54415 (GHSA-g5hx-xv45-9whg): astronomer/dag-factory snapshot at 464c75a — pull_request_target head-SHA checkout executes attacker-controlled hatch scripts in base-repo context
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