CVE-2025-30066highunder attackCWE-506

CVE-2025-30066: high-severity vulnerability in tj-actions changed-files

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93Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Actcvss 8.6epss 72%
from disclosure to weapon3 days
Published on NVDMar 15
1st PoC+3d
CISA KEV+3d
exploitation probability
72%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesCISA + VulnCheck
2 public exploit(s)
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2025-04-08

Apply mitigations as set forth in the CISA instructions linked below. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

In short

A GitHub action tool had a vulnerability where attackers could read secret information from action logs. The tool's older versions were compromised to include malicious code that exposed sensitive data.

Technical detail

CWE-506 (embedded malicious code) in tj-actions changed-files versions ≤45.0.7 allows remote attackers to exfiltrate secrets via action workflow logs; the vulnerability resulted from tag tampering that redirected to a malicious commit containing unauthorized updateFeatures functionality, affecting users who referenced the affected version tags between March 14-15, 2025.

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tj-actions changed-files before 46 allows remote attackers to discover secrets by reading actions logs. (The tags v1 through v45.0.7 were affected on 2025-03-14 and 2025-03-15 because they were modified by a threat actor to point at commit 0e58ed8, which contained malicious updateFeatures code.)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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