Code InjectionWeakness · CWE-94

CVE-2025-55192

HIGH · 8.6 CVSS v4.0 Published 2025-08-14
Patch available
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92/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable Zero-click Patch available

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NVD · unedited
HomeAssistant-Tapo-Control offers Control for Tapo cameras as a Home Assistant component. Prior to commit 2a3b80f, there is a code injection vulnerability in the GitHub Actions workflow .github/workflows/issues.yml. It does not affect users of the Home Assistant integration itself — it only impacts the GitHub Actions environment for this repository. The vulnerable workflow directly inserted user-controlled content from the issue body (github.event.issue.body) into a Bash conditional without proper sanitization. A malicious GitHub user could craft an issue body that executes arbitrary commands on the GitHub Actions runner in a privileged context whenever an issue is opened. The potential impact is limited to the repository’s CI/CD environment, which could allow access to repository contents or GitHub Actions secrets. This issue has been patched via commit 2a3b80f. Workarounds involve disabling the affected workflow (issues.yml), replacing the unsafe Bash comparison with a safe quoted grep (or a pure GitHub Actions expression check), or ensuring minimal permissions in workflows (permissions: block) to reduce possible impact.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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How this class of weakness works · CWE-94

The application evaluates attacker-influenced input as code, handing them a way to run logic inside the process. Depending on the runtime this can escalate directly to remote code execution. Remediation means removing dynamic evaluation of untrusted input and replacing it with safe, data-driven alternatives.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
Authentication
X
User interaction
None
Scope
X

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/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:X

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commit 2a3b80ff128ddf4f410c97dd47a94343792ce43c

  1. Navigate to the repository at https://github.com/JurajNyiri/HomeAssistant-Tapo-Control
  2. Locate the file .github/workflows/issues.yml in the repository
  3. Apply the fix from commit 2a3b80f (https://github.com/JurajNyiri/HomeAssistant-Tapo-Control/commit/2a3b80ff128ddf4f410c97dd47a94343792ce43c)
  4. Verify the fix replaces the unsafe Bash conditional (directly inserting github.event.issue.body into a conditional) with either: a safe quoted grep approach, a pure GitHub Actions expression check, or ensure the workflow includes minimal permissions (permissions: block)
  5. If unable to apply the commit directly, manually edit the workflow to sanitize all user-controlled input (issue body) before using it in shell commands, or disable the workflow entirely if not needed

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