# CVE-2025-54430: dedupe is vulnerable to secret exfiltration via \`issue\_comment\`

- 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=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2025-07-30 · Updated: 2025-07-30

## Affected

- dedupeio dedupe: version range not reported

## Description

dedupe is a python library that uses machine learning to perform fuzzy matching, deduplication and entity resolution quickly on structured data. Before commit 3f61e79, a critical severity vulnerability has been identified within the .github/workflows/benchmark-bot.yml workflow, where a issue_comment can be triggered using the @benchmark body. This workflow is susceptible to exploitation as it checkout the ${{ github.event.issue.number }}, which correspond to the branch of the PR manipulated by potentially malicious actors, and where untrusted code may be executed. Running untrusted code may lead to the exfiltration of GITHUB_TOKEN, which in this workflow has write permissions on most of the scopes - in particular the contents one - and could lead to potential repository takeover. This is fixed by commit 3f61e79.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dedupeio dedupe, 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/dedupeio/dedupe/security/advisories/GHSA-wrg3-xqw8-m85p
- https://github.com/dedupeio/dedupe/commit/3f61e79102910bd355e920a2df7e44c14c9cb247
- https://github.com/pvharmo2/gha-lab-ba981941f0

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