An attacker who can provide build input values, but not modify pipeline definitions, could execute arbitrary shell commands if the pipeline uses ${{vars.}} or ${{inputs.}} substitutions in working-directory. The field is embedded into shell scripts without proper quote escaping.

Fix: Fixed with e51ca30c, Released.

Acknowledgements

melange thanks Oleh Konko from 1seal for discovering and reporting this issue.

melange update-cache downloads URIs from build configs via io.Copy without any size limit or HTTP client timeout (pkg/renovate/cache/cache.go). An attacker-controlled URI in a melange config can cause unbounded disk writes, exhausting disk on the build runner. Affected versions <= 0.40.5.

Fix: Merged Acknowledgements

melange thanks Oleh Konko from 1seal for discovering and reporting this issue.