CVE-2026-53541CWE-20

CVE-2026-53541

Medium · published August 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OliveTin gives access to predefined shell commands from a web interface. The `filterToDefinedArgumentsOnly` function in the executor is intended to discard any arguments not explicitly defined in the action's configuration. However, prior to commit ebffd9f040f791208aee1db2e5a8aecd1e3e603d, a special case allows any argument whose name starts with `ot_` to bypass this filter. While two system arguments (`ot_executionTrackingId` and `ot_username`) are injected by OliveTin and overridden, all other `ot_`-prefixed arguments supplied by the user pass through unmodified. These bypassed arguments are not type-checked — the validation loop only iterates over the action's defined arguments, so `ot_`-prefixed arguments skip all type safety checks entirely; set as environment variables — via `buildEnv()`, with completely unvalidated values, and passed to the executed command; and included in the template context — available as `.Arguments.ot_*` in template rendering. Commit ebffd9f040f791208aee1db2e5a8aecd1e3e603d contains a patch.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00380 · 30.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2026-08-22T03:16Z
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 AUG 22:51Z
    OliveTin has Unvalidated `ot_`-prefixed Arguments that Bypass Input Filtering
    cvelistv5