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Trivy Under Attack Again: Widespread GitHub Actions Tag Compromise Exposes CI/CD Secrets
Shank: > On March 22, 2026, a threat actor used compromised credentials to publish a malicious Trivy v0.69.5 and v0.69.6 DockerHub images. (https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/security/advisories/GH...)So the first incident was on March 19th and the second incident is March 22nd —- evidently the attackers maintained persistence through maybe two separate credential rotation efforts.
h1fra: /s But I thought npm was the issue, and all of this couldn't happen anywhere else?!
hootz: What if we just rebuild everything from scratch with AI? No more supply chain attacks!
classified: Just use OpenClaw. Oh wait, I think Microslop already did...
progbits: Friendly reminder that just because someone is building security software it doesn't mean they are competent and won't cause more harm than good.Every month the security team wants me to give full code or cloud access to some new scanner they want to trial. They love the fancy dashboards and lengthy reports but if I allowed just 10% of what they wanted we would be pwned on the regular...
cedws: I audited Trivy's GitHub Actions a while back and found some worrying things, the most worrying bit was in the setup-trivy Action where it was doing a clone of main of the trivy repo and executing a shell script in there. There was no ref pinning until somebody raised a PR a few months ago. So a security company gave themselves arbitrary code execution in everyone's CI workflows.Aqua were breached earlier this month, failed to contain it, got breached again last week, failed to contain it again, and now the attackers have breached their Docker Hub account. Shit happens but they're clearly not capable of handling this and should be enlisting outside help.
ashishb: I always run such tools inside sandboxes to limit the blast radius.
wswin: I don't think it would help here, they were stealing credentials
Pahacker: GG
Pahacker: jj
huslage: How the heck are credential compromises still a thing with 2FA and refresh tokens???
hrmtst93837: Granting broad access to "security" tools so some vendor can take another shot at your prod keys is not risk reduction. Most of these things are just report printers that makes more noise than a legacy SIEM, and once an attacker is inside they don't do much besides dump findings into a dashboard nobody will read.If you want less self-inflicted damage, stick new scanners in a tight sandbox, feed them read-only miror data, and keep them away from prod perms until they have earned trust with a boring review of exactly what they touch and where the data goes. Otherwise you may as well wire your secrets to a public pastebin and call it testing.
deathanatos: My initial thought is that if this isn't a new compromise, Trivy must not have rotated the old credentials. They claim, however,> We rotated secrets and tokens, but the process wasn't atomic and attackers may have been privy to refreshed tokens… does anyone know what exactly they're talking about, here? To my knowledge, GH does not divulge new tokens after they're issued, but it depends on the exact auth type we're talking about, and GH has an absurd number of different types of tokens/keys one can use.
dang: Recent and related:Trivy ecosystem supply chain temporarily compromised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450142 - March 2026 (35 comments)
wolfi1: temporarily might be a bit of an euphemism here
