CVE-2026-63728

Description

Gitleaks prior to 8.30.1 contains a template injection vulnerability that allows attackers who can supply or influence report templates to read arbitrary environment variables and exfiltrate sensitive data by leveraging non-hermetic Sprig template functions. Attackers can craft malicious report templates using the env, expandenv, and getHostByName functions to extract credentials, tokens, and API keys from the host process and exfiltrate them through DNS queries, including secrets discovered during the scan itself.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gitleaks-secret-exfiltration-via-non-hermetic-sprig-template-functions-in-report-template-feature

https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/commit/83d9cd684c87d95d656c1458ef04895a7f1cbd8e

https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks

https://fatihhcelik.github.io/posts/gitleaks-abusing-sprig-for-exfiltration/#the-fix

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

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