Vulnerable npm Packages Present in GitHub Actions Runner

[satyakrish]

Describe the bug
We have identified multiple high and critical severity vulnerabilities reported by Prisma Cloud scans in our self-hosted GitHub Actions runner. Upon investigation, these vulnerabilities stem from npm packages bundled within the runner's environment, not from our application code. The used packages seems to be outdated versions and needs to be either upgraded to latest fixed version or they are just declared and not used at all in such case the declarations should be removed from respective package.json files.

Affected Packages

The following packages are declared in package.json files across nested submodules in the runner directory:

Package NameDeclared Version(s)CVEs Identifiedcodecov^1.0.1, ^3.8.2CVE-2020-15123, CVE-2020-7596, CVE-2020-7597minimist^1.2.5CVE-2021-44906| requirejs | ^2.1.16 | CVE-2024-38999 |
| async | ^3.2.0 | CVE-2021-43138 |
| cross-spawn | ^7.0.0, ^7.0.6 | CVE-2024-21538 |
| grunt | ^1.0.1, ^1.6.1 | CVE-2022-1537 |
| proxy | 2.1.1, 2.2.0 | CVE-2023-2968 |
| ws | ^3.3.3, ^5.2.4 | CVE-2024-37890 |
| vite | 5.2.11, 6.1.0 | CVE-2025-30208, CVE-2025-31125 |
| systeminformation | ^5.21.17 | CVE-2024-56334 |
| standard-version | ^7.0.0, ^9.5.0 | GHSA-7xcx-6wjh-7xp2 |

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a self hosted runner using the action runner tarball
2. Prisma scans report the above mentioned critical and high vulnerabilities against the packages given above.

Expected behavior
The used packages seems to be outdated versions and needs to be either upgraded to latest fixed version or they are just declared and not used at all in such case the declarations should be removed from respective package.json files.

Runner Version and Platform

Version of your runner? v2.328.0

OS of the machine running the runner? OSX/Windows/Linux/...
Linux

What's not working?

Attached Prisma scan report xls and npm command output for each pacakge

critical_high_vulnerabilities_report.csv

runner-vuln-analysis.txt

Job Log Output

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Runner and Worker's Diagnostic Logs

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