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June 24, 2026 at 12:48 UTC
Cordyceps CI/CD Flaws Expose 300+ GitHub Repositories to Supply-Chain Attacks
By [email protected] (The Hacker News)
AI Summary
Researchers at Novee Security identified a CI/CD vulnerability class dubbed 'Cordyceps' that allows unauthenticated attackers to hijack GitHub Actions workflows by exploiting the 'pull_request_target' trigger, potentially compromising 300+ repositories at organizations including Microsoft, Google, and Apache. GitHub responded on June 18, 2026 by updating 'actions/checkout' to block these pwn request attack patterns, but repositories using older action versions remain at risk.
Relevance score: 77.0/100
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