CVSS base score: 8.6 (High) vendor CNA · v3.1
Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.
reviewdog/action-setup GitHub Action Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability
Vendor: reviewdog Product: action-setup GitHub Action
reviewdog action-setup GitHub Action contains an embedded malicious code vulnerability that dumps exposed secrets to Github Actions Workflow Logs.
Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 91 points from 2025-03-22, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 60.8% on 2025-04-05.
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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.
No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.
Blind spot. No public detection — verify by version/patch. Nothing in the monitored scanner, IDS, SIEM or offensive-tool collections references this CVE, so exposure has to be established from asset inventory and patch level rather than from a signature.
Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan);
Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM);
Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence
here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by
PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted:
some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was
published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available
under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0;
its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed
GNU GPL v2.
| Source | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|
| CISA Vulnrichment | 2025-03-19 | source record → |
| CISA KEV | 2025-03-24 | source record → |
| Date | Advisory | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-18 | Supply Chain Compromise of Third-Party tj-actions/changed-files (CVE-2025-30066) and reviewdog/action-setup@v1 (CVE-2025-30154) | CISA |
No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.
Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.
CVE.org record → NVD entry → CISA KEV catalog → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →