# CVE-2025-47928: Spotipy repo vulnerable to secrets exfiltration via \`pull\_request\_target\`

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2025-05-15 · Updated: 2025-05-15

## Affected

- spotipy-dev spotipy: version range not reported

## Description

Spotipy is a Python library for the Spotify Web API. As of commit 4f5759dbfb4506c7b6280572a4db1aabc1ac778d, using `pull_request_target` on `.github/workflows/integration_tests.yml` followed by the checking out the head.sha of a forked PR can be exploited by attackers, since untrusted code can be executed having full access to secrets (from the base repo). By exploiting the vulnerability is possible to exfiltrate `GITHUB_TOKEN` and secrets `SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID`, `SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET`. In particular `GITHUB_TOKEN` which can be used to completely overtake the repo since the token has content write privileges. The `pull_request_target` in GitHub Actions is a major security concern—especially in public repositories—because it executes untrusted code from a PR, but with the context of the base repository, including access to its secrets. Commit 9dfb7177b8d7bb98a5a6014f8e6436812a47576f reverted the change that caused the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on spotipy-dev spotipy, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/security/advisories/GHSA-h25v-8c87-rvm8
- https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/commit/4f5759dbfb4506c7b6280572a4db1aabc1ac778d
- https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/commit/9dfb7177b8d7bb98a5a6014f8e6436812a47576f
- https://github.com/pvharmo2/gha-lab-2f775f277c

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