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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 11, 2026· Updated Mar 13, 2026

Black's vulnerable version parsing leads to RCE in GitHub Action

CVE-2026-31900

Description

Black is the uncompromising Python code formatter. Black provides a GitHub action for formatting code. This action supports an option, use_pyproject: true, for reading the version of Black to use from the repository pyproject.toml. A malicious pull request could edit pyproject.toml to use a direct URL reference to a malicious repository. This could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the GitHub Action. Attackers could then gain access to secrets or permissions available in the context of the action. Version 26.3.0 fixes this vulnerability.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
psf/blackGitHub Actions
< 26.3.026.3.0

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