CVE-2025-30154highunder attackCWE-506

CVE-2025-30154: high-severity vulnerability in reviewdog

Multiple Reviewdog actions were compromised during a specific time period

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51Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA.

ssvc Actcvss 8.6epss 2.5%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDMar 19
CISA KEV+5d
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2025-04-14

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 used to install reviewdog was compromised for about 2 hours on March 11, 2025, and injected malicious code that exposed sensitive secrets in workflow logs. This affected multiple related actions and any workflow using them during that time period.

Technical detail

reviewdog/action-setup@v1 was compromised (2025-03-11, 18:42–20:31 UTC) and contained malicious code exfiltrating GitHub Actions secrets to workflow logs. The vulnerability affects downstream actions (action-shellcheck, action-composite-template, action-staticcheck, action-ast-grep, action-typos) regardless of version pinning. Attack vector is supply-chain; impact includes exposure of repository secrets, tokens, and credentials in publicly accessible logs.

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reviewdog/action-setup is a GitHub action that installs reviewdog. reviewdog/action-setup@v1 was compromised March 11, 2025, between 18:42 and 20:31 UTC, with malicious code added that dumps exposed secrets to Github Actions Workflow Logs. Other reviewdog actions that use `reviewdog/action-setup@v1` that would also be compromised, regardless of version or pinning method, are reviewdog/action-shellcheck, reviewdog/action-composite-template, reviewdog/action-staticcheck, reviewdog/action-ast-grep, and reviewdog/action-typos.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
reviewdog · reviewdog