Vulnerability · Published Aug 28, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2024-48908lychee-action vulnerable to arbitrary code injection in composite action
Medium 6.9
In plain English
A medium-severity code injection in lychee-action from lycheeverse. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 4.0)6.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 69.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
lychee link checking action checks links in Markdown, HTML, and text files using lychee. Prior to version 2.0.2, there is a potential attack of arbitrary code injection vulnerability in lychee-setup of the composite action at action.yml. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.2.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| lycheeverse | lychee-action | < 2.0.2 |
Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U