Supply Chain Compromise of Third-Party GitHub Action, CVE-2025-30066

Supply Chain Compromise of Third-Party GitHub Action, CVE-2025-30066

https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity-advisories/alerts.xml / Tue, 03/18/2025 - 22:47

A popular third-party GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files (tracked as CVE-2025-30066), was compromised. This GitHub Action is designed to detect which files have changed in a pull request or commit. The supply chain compromise allows for information disclosure of secrets including, but not limited to, valid access keys, GitHub Personal Access Tokens (PATs), npm tokens, and private RSA keys. This has been patched in v46.0.1. 

CISA added CVE-2025-30066 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. 

CISA strongly urges users to implement the recommendations to mitigate this compromise and strengthen security when using third-party actions.  

See the following resources for more guidance: 

Organizations should report incidents and anomalous activity to CISA’s 24/7 Operations Center at Report@cisa.gov or (888) 282-0870.  

This alert is provided “as is” for informational purposes only. CISA does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information within. CISA does not endorse any commercial product, entity, or service referenced in this alert or otherwise. 

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