melange allows users to build apk packages using declarative pipelines. From version 0.3.0 to before 0.40.3, an attacker who can provide build input values, but not modify pipeline definitions, could execute arbitrary shell commands if the pipeline uses ${{vars.*}} or ${{inputs.*}} substitutions in working-directory. The field is embedded into shell scripts without proper quote escaping. This issue has been patched in version 0.40.3.
melange allows users to build apk packages using declarative pipelines. From version 0.3.0 to before 0.40.3, an attacker who can provide build input values, but not modify pipeline definitions, could execute arbitrary shell commands if the pipeline uses ${{vars.*}} or ${{inputs.*}} substitutions in working-directory. The field is embedded into shell scripts without proper quote escaping. This issue has been patched in version 0.40.3.
melange allows users to build apk packages using declarative pipelines. From version 0.3.0 to before 0.40.3, an attacker who can provide build input values, but not modify pipeline definitions, could execute arbitrary shell commands if the pipeline uses ${{vars.*}} or ${{inputs.*}} substitutions in working-directory. The field is embedded into shell scripts without proper quote escaping. This issue has been patched in version 0.40.3.
An attacker who can provide build input values, but not modify pipeline definitions, could execute arbitrary shell commands if the pipeline uses `${{vars.*}}` or `${{inputs.*}}` substitutions in `working-directory`. The field is embedded into shell scripts without proper quote escaping.
**Fix:** Fixed with [e51ca30c](https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/commit/e51ca30cfb63178f5a86997d23d3fff0359fa6c8), Released.
**Acknowledgements**
melange thanks Oleh Konko from [1seal](https://1seal.org/) for discovering and reporting this issue.
EUVD source date text has no stated timezone and is retained without inventing a UTC instant. Related bulletin membership is not an alias, common cause or applicability claim. A missing vector with a zero score is treated as unrated. Complete vendor/product and underlying source evidence remains in the original JSON.
Original publisher date fields
datePublished: Feb 4, 2026, 7:31:55 PM
dateUpdated: Feb 5, 2026, 2:33:09 PM
No normalized affected-package data is projected for this source revision. The original publisher record may contain additional product and version evidence; this does not establish that a package is unaffected.
NVD analysis and CPE criteria are source context, not proof that a package or your environment is affected. Complete affected data, logical configurations and SSVC are retained in the original JSON.
Source analysis status: Analyzed
Weakness classifications: CWE-78
Original publisher date fields
published: 2026-02-04T20:16:05.550
lastModified: 2026-06-17T10:23:41.497
1 source CPE criteria · context only
cpe:2.3:a:chainguard:melange:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
The original JSON retains the logical configuration operators, exclusions and version bounds.
No normalized affected-package data is projected for this source revision. The original publisher record may contain additional product and version evidence; this does not establish that a package is unaffected.