CVE-2025-32955

Description

Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. Versions from 0.12.0 to before 2.12.0 are vulnerable to `disable-sudo` bypass. Harden-Runner includes a policy option `disable-sudo` to prevent the GitHub Actions runner user from using sudo. This is implemented by removing the runner user from the sudoers file. However, this control can be bypassed as the runner user, being part of the docker group, can interact with the Docker daemon to launch privileged containers or access the host filesystem. This allows the attacker to regain root access or restore the sudoers file, effectively bypassing the restriction. This issue has been patched in version 2.12.0.

Reserved 2025-04-14 | Published 2025-04-21 | Updated 2025-04-22 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-268: Privilege Chaining

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Product status

>= 0.12.0, < 2.12.0
affected

References

github.com/...runner/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr3-8whj-j74r

github.com/...ommit/0634a2670c59f64b4a01f0f96f84700a4088b9f0

github.com/step-security/harden-runner/releases/tag/v2.12.0

cve.org (CVE-2025-32955)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-32955)

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