wolfictl is a command line tool for working with Wolfi. A git authentication issue in versions prior to 0.16.10 allows a local user’s GitHub token to be sent to remote servers other than `github.com`. Most git-dependent functionality in wolfictl relies on its own `git` package, which contains centralized logic for implementing interactions with git repositories. Some of this functionality requires authentication in order to access private repositories. A central function `GetGitAuth` looks for a GitHub token in the environment variable `GITHUB_TOKEN` and returns it as an HTTP basic auth object to be used with the `github.com/go-git/go-git/v5` library. Most callers (direct or indirect) of `GetGitAuth` use the token to authenticate to github.com only; however, in some cases callers were passing this authentication without checking that the remote git repository was hosted on github.com. This behavior has existed in one form or another since commit 0d06e1578300327c212dda26a5ab31d09352b9d0 - committed January 25, 2023. This impacts anyone who ran the `wolfictl check update` commands with a Melange configuration that included a `git-checkout` directive step that referenced a git repository not hosted on github.com. This also impacts anyone who ran `wolfictl update <url>` with a remote URL outside of github.com. Additionally, these subcommands must have run with the `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variable set to a valid GitHub token. Users should upgrade to version 0.16.10 to receive a patch.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - wolfictl is a command line tool for working with Wolfi. A git authentication issue in versions prior to
    0.16.10 allows a local user’s GitHub token to be sent to remote servers other than `github.com`. Most git-
    dependent functionality in wolfictl relies on its own `git` package, which contains centralized logic for
    implementing interactions with git repositories. Some of this functionality requires authentication in
    order to access private repositories. A central function `GetGitAuth` looks for a GitHub token in the
    environment variable `GITHUB_TOKEN` and returns it as an HTTP basic auth object to be used with the
    `github.com/go-git/go-git/v5` library. Most callers (direct or indirect) of `GetGitAuth` use the token to
    authenticate to github.com only; however, in some cases callers were passing this authentication without
    checking that the remote git repository was hosted on github.com. This behavior has existed in one form or
    another since commit 0d06e1578300327c212dda26a5ab31d09352b9d0 - committed January 25, 2023. This impacts
    anyone who ran the `wolfictl check update` commands with a Melange configuration that included a `git-
    checkout` directive step that referenced a git repository not hosted on github.com. This also impacts
    anyone who ran `wolfictl update <url>` with a remote URL outside of github.com. Additionally, these
    subcommands must have run with the `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variable set to a valid GitHub token. Users
    should upgrade to version 0.16.10 to receive a patch. (CVE-2024-35183)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
412625	SCA: security update for github.com/wolfi-dev/wolfictl (GHSA-8fg7-hp93-qhvr)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
412625	SCA: security update for github.com/wolfi-dev/wolfictl (GHSA-8fg7-hp93-qhvr)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium

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CVE-2024-35183

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Tenable Plugins

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