GHSA-h4q8-96p6-jcgrMediumCVSS 5.0

ghinstallation returns app JWT in error responses

Published
December 19, 2022
Last Modified
August 28, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

In ghinstallation v1, when the request to refresh an installation token failed, the HTTP request and response would be returned for debugging.

https://github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation/blob/24e56b3fb7669f209134a01eff731d7e2ef72a5c/transport.go#L172-L174

The request contained the bearer JWT for the App, and was returned back to clients. This token is short lived (10 minute maximum).

Patches

  • This has already been patched in d24f14f8be70d94129d76026e8b0f4f9170c8c3e, and is available in releases >= v2.0.0.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

  • See https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-github-apps/authenticating-with-github-apps#authenticating-as-an-installation for the App installation flow.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/bradleyfalzon/ghinstallation:< 2.0.0

🔗 References (8)