# CVE-2026-53541: OliveTin has Unvalidated \`ot\_\`-prefixed Arguments that Bypass Input Filtering

- Also known as: GO-2026-5552, GHSA-PRJ9-97MP-MWH2
- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.0.0-20260531214440-ebffd9f040f7
- Published: 2026-08-21 · Updated: 2026-08-24

## Affected

- OliveTin: through 2025.03.07
- github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20260531214440-ebffd9f040f7

## Description

OliveTin gives access to predefined shell commands from a web interface. The `filterToDefinedArgumentsOnly` function in the executor is intended to discard any arguments not explicitly defined in the action's configuration. However, prior to commit ebffd9f040f791208aee1db2e5a8aecd1e3e603d, a special case allows any argument whose name starts with `ot_` to bypass this filter. While two system arguments (`ot_executionTrackingId` and `ot_username`) are injected by OliveTin and overridden, all other `ot_`-prefixed arguments supplied by the user pass through unmodified. These bypassed arguments are not type-checked — the validation loop only iterates over the action's defined arguments, so `ot_`-prefixed arguments skip all type safety checks entirely; set as environment variables — via `buildEnv()`, with completely unvalidated values, and passed to the executed command; and included in the template context — available as `.Arguments.ot_*` in template rendering. Commit ebffd9f040f791208aee1db2e5a8aecd1e3e603d contains a patch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OliveTin, github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin, upgrade to a fixed version (0.0.0-20260531214440-ebffd9f040f7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin/security/advisories/GHSA-prj9-97mp-mwh2
- https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin/commit/ebffd9f040f791208aee1db2e5a8aecd1e3e603d

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