spotipy — security advisory

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  "id": "efa81c9752d22d1e3d49febef6ee235ea27773829e48810825dc31484674a745",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47928",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47928",
    "summary": "Spotipy is a Python library for the Spotify Web API. As of commit 4f5759dbfb4506c7b6280572a4db1aabc1ac778d, using `pull_request_target` on `.github/workflows/integration_tests.yml` followed by the checking out the head.sha of a forked PR can be exploited by attackers, since untrusted code can be executed having full access to secrets (from the base repo). By exploiting the vulnerability is possible to exfiltrate `GITHUB_TOKEN` and secrets `SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID`, `SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET`. In particular `GITHUB_TOKEN` which can be used to completely overtake the repo since the token has content write privileges. The `pull_request_target` in GitHub Actions is a major security concern—especially in public repositories—because it executes untrusted code from a PR, but with the context of the base repository, including access to its secrets. Commit 9dfb7177b8d7bb98a5a6014f8e6436812a47576f reverted the change that caused the issue.",
    "evidence": "osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47928",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "spotipy",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.25.1-1",
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          }
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      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "spotipy",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
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        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.25.2-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "2.26.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "spotipy",
          "evidence": "/affected/2/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "2.25.1-1",
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          {
            "value": "2.25.2-1",
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    "severity": "critical",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
        },
        {
          "type": "Ubuntu",
          "score": "medium"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "spotipy",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/spotipy?arch=source&distro=questing",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.25.1-1"
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          "ecosystem_specific": {
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              {
                "binary_name": "python3-spotipy",
                "binary_version": "2.25.1-1"
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          "package": {
            "name": "spotipy",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/spotipy?arch=source&distro=stonking",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.25.2-1",
            "2.26.0-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          "ecosystem_specific": {
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              {
                "binary_name": "python3-spotipy",
                "binary_version": "2.26.0-1"
              }
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          "package": {
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/spotipy?arch=source&distro=resolute",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.04:LTS"
          },
          "versions": [
            "2.25.1-1",
            "2.25.2-1"
          ],
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          "ecosystem_specific": {
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              {
                "binary_name": "python3-spotipy",
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        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-17T12:57:28.834312671Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2025-47928"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-47928",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-47928",
        "https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/commit/4f5759dbfb4506c7b6280572a4db1aabc1ac778d",
        "https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/commit/9dfb7177b8d7bb98a5a6014f8e6436812a47576f",
        "https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/security/advisories/GHSA-h25v-8c87-rvm8"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-47928",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 357578,
  "published_at": "2025-05-15T20:16:00+00:00"
}