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GHSA-9r75-g2cr-3h76 json

Vercel Workflow Allows Webhook Creation with Predictable User-Specified Tokens

published 8mo ago modified 8mo ago

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

`createWebhook()` in Vercel Workflow DevKit accepts a user-specified `token` parameter that serves as the credential for the public webhook endpoint `/.well-known/workflow/v1/webhook/{token}`. Official documentation recommended predictable token patterns, making it possible for an unauthenticated remote attacker to guess the token and inject arbitrary payloads into the workflow execution context.

#### Impact

An attacker who guesses a webhook token can resume the associated workflow with an attacker-controlled HTTP request body, potentially triggering downstream side effects such as API calls, database writes, or deployments.

#### Fix

* Upgrade to version 4.2.0-beta.64. The fix removes the `token` option from `createWebhook()` so that webhook tokens are always randomly generated by the SDK. * Runs created with versions prior to 4.2.0-beta.64, that are 1) still active (i.e. running), and 2) have open hooks, are still susceptible to this vulnerability. If users suspect the hook tokens are predictable or leaked - consider cancelling those runs and restarting them on the latest patch.

#### Workarounds

In case a version upgrade is not possible, avoid passing predictable or guessable values to the `token` parameter of `createWebhook()`. Instead, users can either

* switch from `createWebhook()` to `createHook()` instead and programmatically resume hooks using `resumeHook()` instead of the public webhook endpoint, or * use `createWebhook()` without passing a user-provided `token`, which uses a non-guessable random `nanoid` by default.

Patch / fix

  • npm workflow 4.2.0-beta.64
  • npm @workflow/core 4.2.0-beta.64

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm workflow
<4.2.0-beta.64
4.2.0-beta.64
npm @workflow/core
<4.2.0-beta.64
4.2.0-beta.64

Classification

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References

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The maintainers of vercel/workflow published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.