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GHSA-g9f5-x53j-h563

Published May 30, 2025·Last modified Feb 4, 2026
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No affected components available

Description

Summary

A security vulnerability has been identified in go-gh where an attacker-controlled GitHub Enterprise Server could result in executing arbitrary commands on a user's machine by replacing HTTP URLs provided by GitHub with local file paths for browsing.

Details

The GitHub CLI and CLI extensions allow users to transition from their terminal for a variety of use cases through the Browser capability in github.com/cli/go-gh/v2/pkg/browser:

  • Using the -w, --web flag, GitHub CLI users can view GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, and more using their web browser
  • Using the gh codespace command set, GitHub CLI users can transition to Visual Studio Code to work with GitHub Codespaces

This is done by using URLs provided through API responses from authenticated GitHub hosts when users execute gh commands.

Prior to 2.12.1, Browser.Browse() would attempt to open the provided URL using a variety of OS-specific approaches regardless of the scheme. An attacker-controlled GitHub Enterprise Server could modify API responses to use a specially tailored local executable path instead of HTTP URLs to resources. This could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary executables on the user's machine.

In 2.12.1, Browser.Browse() has been enhanced to allow and disallow a variety of scenarios to avoid opening or executing files on the filesystem without unduly impacting HTTP URLs:

  1. URLs with http://, https://, vscode://, vscode-insiders:// protocols are supported
  2. URLs with file:// protocol are unsupported
  3. URLs matching files or directories on the filesystem are unsupported
  4. URLs matching executables in the user's path are unsupported

URLs without protocols will be browsable if none of these other conditions apply.

As we have more information about use cases, maintainers can expand these capabilities for an improved user experience that allows configuring allowed URL schemes and/or prompt the user for an unexpected user case and confirming whether to continue.

Impact

Successful exploitation could cause users of the attacker-controlled GitHub Enterprise Server to execute arbitrary commands.

Remediation and Mitigation

  1. Upgrade go-gh to 2.12.1
Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
0.46%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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