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Cross-environment deployment cancel: a lower-trust env key (dev/preview/CI) cancels another environment’s (e.g. production) deployments — DeploymentService.getDeployment scopes by projectId only, not environmentId

Moderate
carderne published GHSA-4672-hwv6-gq62 Jul 21, 2026

Package

npm trigger.dev (npm)

Affected versions

<= 4.5.5

Patched versions

>= 4.5.6

Description

Summary

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.

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. Learn more on MITRE.

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