Litestar ASGI Framework Vulnerable to Environment Variable Injection

CVE-2024-42370

What is CVE-2024-42370?

The Litestar ASGI framework is affected by a vulnerability that permits environment variable injection within the docs-preview.yml workflow. This issue compromises sensitive information, potentially allowing unauthorized access for malicious actors. The vulnerability could lead to the exfiltration of secrets and manipulation of the repository, enabling attackers to create issues and pull requests, as well as view critical repository metadata. A commit has been made to address this vulnerability and restore security after the exposure of the DOCS_PREVIEW_DEPLOY_TOKEN environment variable.

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