alt Hacker NewsIMO the core of the issue is the awful Github Actions Cache design. Look at the recommendations to avoid an attack by this extremely pernicious malware proof of concept: https://github.com/AdnaneKhan/Cacheract?tab=readme-ov-file#g.... How easy is it to mess this up when designing an action?
The LLM is a cute way to carry out this vulnerability, but in fact it's very easy to get code execution and poison a cache without LLMs, for example when executing code in the context of a unit test.
GHA in general just isn't designed to be secure. Instead of providing solid CI/CD primitives they have normalized letting CI run arbitrary unvetted 3rd-party code - and by nature of it being CD giving it privileged access keys.
It is genuinely a wonder that we haven't seen massive supply-chain compromises yet. Imagine what kind of horror you could do by compromising "actions/cache" and using CD credentials to pivot to everyone's AWS / GCP / Azure environments!