# CVE-2023-30628: Kiwi TCMS has command injection vulnerability in changelog.yml CI workflow

- Also known as: PYSEC-2023-273, GHSA-CW6R-6CCX-5HWX
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 12.3
- Published: 2023-04-24 · Updated: 2025-02-12

## Affected

- kiwitcms Kiwi: through 12.2
- kiwitcms (PyPI): fixed in 12.3

## Description

Kiwi TCMS is an open source test management system. In kiwitcms/Kiwi v12.2 and prior and kiwitcms/enterprise v12.2 and prior, the `changelog.yml` workflow is vulnerable to command injection attacks because of using an untrusted `github.head_ref` field. The `github.head_ref` value is an attacker-controlled value. Assigning the value to `zzz";echo${IFS}"hello";#` can lead to command injection. Since the permission is not restricted, the attacker has a write-access to the repository. Commit 834c86dfd1b2492ccad7ebbfd6304bfec895fed2 of the kiwitcms/Kiwi repository and commit e39f7e156fdaf6fec09a15ea6f4e8fec8cdbf751 of the kiwitcms/enterprise repository contain a fix for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kiwitcms Kiwi, kiwitcms, upgrade to a fixed version (12.3) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/kiwitcms/Kiwi/security/advisories/GHSA-cw6r-6ccx-5hwx
- https://github.com/kiwitcms/Kiwi/commit/834c86dfd1b2492ccad7ebbfd6304bfec895fed2
- https://github.com/kiwitcms/enterprise/commit/e39f7e156fdaf6fec09a15ea6f4e8fec8cdbf751
- https://github.com/kiwitcms/Kiwi/blob/37bfb87696093ce0393160e2725949185cc0651d/.github/workflows/changelog.yml#L18
- https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-untrusted-input/

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