CVE-2025-30066
8.6, high Known exploitedtj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.6, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 72% higher than 99.4% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 15 Mar 2025a year ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 18 Mar 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 8 Apr 2025, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. 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.
Description
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.)
Details
- Vendor
- tj-actions
- Product
- changed-files
- Weakness
- CWE-506 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 24 Sept 2026
- Assigner
- cve@mitre.org
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
References 21
Exploit code 2
Patches and fixes 2
Advisories 9
- github.com /github/docs/blob/962a1c8dccb8c0f66548b324e5b921b5e4fbc3d6/content/actions/security-for-github-actions/security-guides/security-hardening-for-github-actions.md?plain=1#L191-L193 (opens in a new tab)
- news.ycombinator.com /item?id=43367987 (opens in a new tab)
- news.ycombinator.com /item?id=43368870 (opens in a new tab)
- semgrep.dev /blog/2025/popular-github-action-tj-actionschanged-files-is-compromised/ (opens in a new tab)
- sysdig.com /blog/detecting-and-mitigating-the-tj-actions-changed-files-supply-chain-attack-cve-2025-30066/ (opens in a new tab)
- cisa.gov /news-events/alerts/2025/03/18/supply-chain-compromise-third-party-github-action-cve-2025-30066 (opens in a new tab)
- stream.security /post/github-action-supply-chain-attack-exposes-secrets-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-respond (opens in a new tab)
- sweet.security /blog/cve-2025-30066-tj-actions-supply-chain-attack (opens in a new tab)
Other references 8
- github.com /espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/11127 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /modal-labs/modal-examples/issues/1100 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /tj-actions/changed-files/blob/45fb12d7a8bedb4da42342e52fe054c6c2c3fd73/README.md?plain=1#L20-L28 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2463 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2464 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2477 (opens in a new tab)
- web.archive.org /web/20250315060250/https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2463 (opens in a new tab)
- cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-30066 (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 18 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.