GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62

GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 is a medium-severity security vulnerability in trigger.dev (npm), affecting versions <= 4.5.5. It is fixed in 4.5.6.

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Summary

Trigger.dev: Cross-environment deployment cancel

Trigger.dev isolates each project into multiple environments (dev, staging, prod, and per-PR preview branches), each with its own secret API key, the environment is a trust boundary (a dev/preview/CI key is lower-trust than a prod key). Most API routes enforce this by scoping resource lookups to the authenticated key's environment (where: { friendlyId, runtimeEnvironmentId: auth.environment.id }).

The deployment cancel path does not. DeploymentService.getDeployment() scopes the lookup by projectId only, never environmentId, so a secret key for any environment in a project can cancel a deployment belonging to any other environment of the same project, including production. The deployment GET route, by contrast, is env-scoped, so the same key that is 404'd when trying to read a prod deployment can nonetheless cancel it. That asymmetry is the bug.

Affected

apps/webapp, HEAD 5d99457 (current main). Affects self-hosted and cloud.

Root cause

apps/webapp/app/routes/api.v1.deployments.$deploymentId.cancel.ts authenticates to an environment and calls deploymentService.cancelDeployment(authenticatedEnv, deploymentId, ...).

apps/webapp/app/v3/services/deployment.server.ts:

public cancelDeployment(authenticatedEnv: Pick<AuthenticatedEnvironment,"projectId">, friendlyId, ...) {
  return this.getDeployment(authenticatedEnv.projectId, friendlyId)   // projectId only
    .andThen(validateDeployment)                                      // rejects only FINAL statuses
    .andThen(cancelDeployment);                                       // updateMany -> status CANCELED
}
private getDeployment(projectId: string, friendlyId: string) {
  return this._prisma.workerDeployment.findFirst({
    where: { friendlyId, projectId },        // <-- NO environmentId filter
  });
}

cancelDeployment accepts authenticatedEnv but its type is literally Pick<AuthenticatedEnvironment,"projectId">, it discards the environment identity. validateDeployment blocks only FINAL_DEPLOYMENT_STATUSES, so any in-progress deployment (PENDING/INSTALLING/BUILDING/DEPLOYING) is cancellable.

Contrast, the correctly env-scoped sibling api.v1.deployments.$deploymentId.ts (GET):

const deployment = await prisma.workerDeployment.findFirst({
  where: { friendlyId: deploymentId, environmentId: authenticatedEnv.id },   // env-scoped
});

Reads are env-scoped; the cancel mutation is not. The same getDeployment(authenticatedEnv.projectId, …) helper also backs the deployment progress methods (deployment.server.ts:172,329), so the projectId-only scope is a small class.

Runtime PoC (proven on the self-host stack)

Seeded one project with a prod env (key tr_prod_…) and a dev env (key tr_dev_…) and one WorkerDeployment (deployment_pocvictim, status DEPLOYING) in the prod env. As the dev key:

status BEFORE                                                  : DEPLOYING
GET  /api/v1/deployments/deployment_pocvictim   (dev key)      -> 404   (env-scoped read DENIES it)
POST /api/v1/deployments/deployment_pocvictim/cancel (dev key) -> 204
status AFTER                                                   : CANCELED   (prod deploy canceled by the dev key)
CONTROL: same cancel with a DIFFERENT project's key            -> 404   (projectId scope blocks cross-project)

The dev key cannot read the prod deployment (404) yet cancels it (204 → CANCELED); a different project's key is correctly 404'd, so the gap is precisely cross-environment within a project.

Impact

GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 has a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium). The vector is network-reachable, low privileges required, and no user interaction. A CVSS score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether this affects your application depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable in your environment. A fixed version is available (4.5.6); upgrading removes the vulnerable code path.

Affected versions

trigger.dev (<= 4.5.5)

Security releases

trigger.dev → 4.5.6 (npm)

Kodem intelligence

Severity tells you how bad this could be in the worst case. It does not tell you whether you are exposed. Exploitability and impact are functions of runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A vulnerable package can sit in your dependency tree and never run.

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Remediation advice

Upgrade trigger.dev to 4.5.6 or later to resolve this vulnerability.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  1. What is GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62? GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 is a medium-severity security vulnerability in trigger.dev (npm), affecting versions <= 4.5.5. It is fixed in 4.5.6.
  2. How severe is GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62? GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 has a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium). This score reflects the worst-case severity of the vulnerability, not your specific exposure. Whether it represents real risk in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable.
  3. Which versions of trigger.dev are affected by GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62? trigger.dev (npm) versions <= 4.5.5 is affected.
  4. Is there a fix for GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62? Yes. GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 is fixed in 4.5.6. Upgrade to this version or later.
  5. Is GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 exploitable, and should I be worried? Whether GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 is exploitable in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable. A CVSS score is a worst-case rating; it does not account for your specific deployment, configuration, or usage patterns. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to show which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so you can focus on the ones that represent real risk. Get a demo
  6. What actually determines whether GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62 is exploitable, and how bad it is? Exploitability and impact are not fixed properties of a CVE. They depend on runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A high CVSS score on a dependency that never runs is not the same as real risk. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter.
  7. How do I fix GHSA-4672-HWV6-GQ62? Upgrade trigger.dev to 4.5.6 or later.

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