Standard CI security scanners fail to detect attack scenarios in GitHub Actions through their structural distribution across multiple workflows and external actions, necessitating complementary governance…
Malware exploits compromised npm packages and manipulated GitHub Actions to exfiltrate tokens and credentials directly from CI/CD environments and developer repositories.
GitHub blocks by default the automatic loading of code from forked pull requests in privileged workflows to prevent attackers from stealing GITHUB_TOKEN and environment variables.
Unauthenticated attackers can manipulate privileged processes and take over code repositories through insecure permission configurations in GitHub Actions.
actions/checkout v7 fails workflows that use pull_request_target or workflow_run with unverified fork code — a step toward “Security by Default” philosophy.
Invisible HTML comments in GitHub Issues could trick Claude Code AI into reading protected environment variables like ANTHROPIC_API_KEY due to insufficient restrictions on the Read…
