{"id":82261,"date":"2026-07-20T02:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-44359-meshtastic-github-repo-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-code-execution-via-pull_request_target-fork-checkout-in-ci-workflow\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T02:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:06:32","slug":"cve-2026-44359-meshtastic-github-repo-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-code-execution-via-pull_request_target-fork-checkout-in-ci-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-44359-meshtastic-github-repo-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-code-execution-via-pull_request_target-fork-checkout-in-ci-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-44359 &#8211; Meshtastic GitHub repo vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via pull_request_target Fork Checkout in CI Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-44359<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 19, 2026, 11:06 p.m. | 36\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Meshtastic is an open source mesh networking solution. Prior to version 2.7.21.1370b23, the Meshtastic GitHub repository&#8217;s main_matrix.yml workflow is triggered by pull_request_target  and multiple jobs check out the attacker&#8217;s fork code and execute it with access to repository secrets and elevated GITHUB_TOKEN permissions. No approval gate exists. Pull requests from external users with author_association: &#8220;NONE&#8221; triggered the CI workflow automatically. The workflow directly executes attacker-controlled files from the fork checkout. This issue could have resulted in supply chain compromise, self-hosted runner compromise, and\/or repository takeover for the repo. This issue is separate from GHSA-6mwm-v2vv-pp96, which addressed a command injection via github.head_ref in the setup job of the same workflow. That fix correctly moved to environment variables. However, the more critical fork checkout vulnerability across the check, build, and build-debian-src jobs was not addressed. Version 2.7.21.1370b23 contains a patch for thie issue.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-44359 Published : July 19, 2026, 11:06 p.m. | 36\u00a0minutes ago Description :Meshtastic is an open source mesh networking solution. Prior to version 2.7.21.1370b23, the Meshtastic GitHub repository&#8217;s main_matrix.yml workflow is triggered by pull_request_target and multiple jobs check out the attacker&#8217;s fork code and execute it with access to repository secrets and elevated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}