Bug 2531590

Summary:	CVE-2026-85623 goose: Goose: Arbitrary Command Execution via Recipe Extensions [epel-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	goose	Assignee:	RHEL Lightspeed Maint <rhel-lightspeed>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	epel10	CC:	rhel-lightspeed, rodolfo.olivieri3, rust-sig, sdoran
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Description Laura Pardo 2026-09-10 18:24:23 UTC

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goose 1.37.0 executes arbitrary commands from recipe stdio extensions and retry.checks without security inspection. Attackers can distribute malicious recipes that execute shell commands as the user running goose, bypassing the recipe security scan which does not inspect extensions or retry configurations.

Comment 1 Sam Doran 2026-09-14 20:48:27 UTC

Based on careful review of the upstream discussion[1] around this CVE as well as doing some local testing, this is not applicable to goose in Fedora/RHEL. Because we do not ship the GUI version of goose, the issue of arbitrary code execution without notification to the user is not possible. The CLI version of goose we ship shows that an extension executed code.


goose run --recipe recipe.yaml --no-session
Loading recipe: Helpful Data Analyzer
Description: Analyzes your data (shared recipe)

Warning: Failed to start extension 'analyzer' (process quit before initialization: stderr = ), continuing without it
  Hint: once the session starts, ask goose to help debug the 'analyzer' extension


[1]: https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/issues/10325#issuecomment-5164386918