CVE-2026-63728 PUBLISHED

Gitleaks Secret Exfiltration via Non-Hermetic Sprig Template Functions in Report Template Feature

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 17.07.2026 Published: 20.07.2026 Updated: 20.07.2026

Gitleaks prior to 8.30.1 contains a template injection vulnerability that allows attackers who can supply or influence report templates to read arbitrary environment variables and exfiltrate sensitive data by leveraging non-hermetic Sprig template functions. Attackers can craft malicious report templates using the env, expandenv, and getHostByName functions to extract credentials, tokens, and API keys from the host process and exfiltrate them through DNS queries, including secrets discovered during the scan itself.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor gitleaks
Product gitleaks
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 8.30.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Fatih Çelik reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine CWE