GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6/GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6

Aliases

Published

2026-03-23T18:30:31Z

Modified

2026-03-26T21:11:24Z

Severity

8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

DigitalOcean Droplet Agent: Command Injection via Metadata Service Endpoint

Details

A command injection vulnerability exists in DigitalOcean Droplet Agent through 1.3.2. The troubleshooting actioner component (internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go) processes metadata from the metadata service endpoint and executes commands specified in the TroubleshootingAgent.Requesting array without adequate input validation. While the code validates that artifacts exist in the validInvestigationArtifacts map, it fails to sanitize the actual command content after the "command:" prefix. This allows an attacker who can control metadata responses to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. The attack is triggered by sending a TCP packet with specific sequence numbers to the SSH port, which causes the agent to fetch metadata from http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json.

The vulnerability affects the command execution flow in internal/troubleshooting/actioner/actioner.go (insufficient validation), internal/troubleshooting/command/exec.go (direct exec.CommandContext call), and internal/troubleshooting/command/command.go (command parsing without sanitization). This can lead to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and potential lateral movement across cloud infrastructure.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-77"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-03-25T22:05:11Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-03-23T17:16:37Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
}

References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/digitalocean/droplet-agent

Package

Name: github.com/digitalocean/droplet-agent; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/digitalocean/droplet-agent

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Last Affected

0.0.0-20260107162243-1101ffcb5672

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6/GHSA-fh3m-562m-w4f6.json"