CVE-2025-54594 PUBLISHED

react-native-bottom-tabs: Arbitrary code execution in GitHub Actions canary workflow leads to secret exfiltration

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.07.2025 Published: 05.08.2025 Updated: 06.08.2025

react-native-bottom-tabs is a library of Native Bottom Tabs for React Native. In versions 0.9.2 and below, the github/workflows/release-canary.yml GitHub Actions repository workflow improperly used the pull_request_target event trigger, which allowed for untrusted code from a forked pull request to be executed in a privileged context. An attacker could create a pull request containing a malicious preinstall script in the package.json file and then trigger the vulnerable workflow by posting a specific comment (!canary). This allowed for arbitrary code execution, leading to the exfiltration of sensitive secrets such as GITHUB_TOKEN and NPM_TOKEN, and could have allowed an attacker to push malicious code to the repository or publish compromised packages to the NPM registry. There is a remediation commit which removes github/workflows/release-canary.yml, but a version with this fix has yet to be released.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor callstackincubator
Product react-native-bottom-tabs
Versions
  • Version <= 0.9.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management CWE
  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CWE