# CVE-2025-62794: GitHub Workflow Updater stored the optional Github token in plaintext

- Severity: CVSS 3.8 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.0.7
- Published: 2025-10-28 · Updated: 2025-10-29

## Affected

- RichardoC github-workflow-updater-extension: fixed in 0.0.7

## Description

GitHub Workflow Updater is a VS Code extension that automatically pins GitHub Actions to specific commits for enhanced security. Before 0.0.7, any provided Github token would be stored in plaintext in the editor configuration as json on disk, rather than through the more secure "securestorage" api. An attacker with read only access to your home directory could have read this token and used it to perform actions with that token. Update to 0.0.7.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on RichardoC github-workflow-updater-extension, upgrade to a fixed version (0.0.7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/RichardoC/github-workflow-updater-extension/security/advisories/GHSA-679x-97jw-8vjp
- https://github.com/RichardoC/github-workflow-updater-extension/commit/b9518c38ac6bc2a9fda2242e6daef17f7184ad1f
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-discussions/discussions/748

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