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CVE-2026-71493 Detail

Description

Infracost provides cloud cost intelligence for engineers, AI coding agents, and CI/CD. Prior to 0.10.45, the readFile, pathExists, isDir, and matchPaths template functions in internal/config/template/parser.go use a lexical filepath.Rel check and a leaf-only os.Lstat check that do not resolve an intermediate directory symlink. A repository can contain a path such as evil/file where evil points outside the checkout, causing os.ReadFile and related operations to follow the symlink and read runner-accessible files. The resulting content is rendered into generated configuration and can be surfaced through the Infracost dashboard or pull request comment, with greater impact in workflows that provide repository secrets. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.45.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
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Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
CVSS-B 5.9 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/commit/4d39331afc0e27752d16d9d91c34583e5e8487fb GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/pull/3586 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/releases/tag/v0.10.45 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/security/advisories/GHSA-mmg6-4qmv-6pc8 GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') GitHub, Inc.  
CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-71493
NVD Published Date:
08/21/2026
NVD Last Modified:
08/21/2026
Source:
GitHub, Inc.