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The March 2026 Trivy Action supply chain compromise demonstrated the risk of mutable action refs — @master and floating tags like @v6 can be force-pushed to malicious commits without warning.

Changes

  • aquasecurity/trivy-action@master → pinned to 57a97c7e7821a5776cebc9bb87c984fa69cba8f1 # v0.35.0 (the critical fix — this ref was directly compromised)
  • actions/checkout@v6de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6 (6 occurrences)
  • actions/upload-artifact@v7bbbca2ddaa5d8feaa63e36b76fdaad77386f024f # v7 (4 occurrences)
  • actions/download-artifact@v83e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c # v8 (2 occurrences)

All 15 uses: references in the file are now immutably pinned. Version comments are retained for readability:

# Before
uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
uses: actions/checkout@v6

# After
uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@57a97c7e7821a5776cebc9bb87c984fa69cba8f1 # v0.35.0
uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6
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Problem

The .github/workflows/ci-cd.yml workflow uses aquasecurity/trivy-action@master which is extremely dangerous — the Trivy Action supply chain compromise in March 2026 proved that the master branch was directly compromised, exposing CI/CD secrets.

Required Changes

Update .github/workflows/ci-cd.yml to:

  1. Pin the Trivy action to SHA hash: Replace aquasecurity/trivy-action@master with aquasecurity/trivy-action@57a97c7e41536f44adcf59faf14cd94554d91eb0 # v0.35.0
  2. Pin ALL other GitHub Actions in the file to full SHA hashes with version comments.

Search the entire .github/workflows/ci-cd.yml file for ALL uses: lines and pin each one to its full 40-character commit SHA. Add a comment with the human-readable tag after the SHA, e.g.:

  • uses: actions/checkout@<full-sha> # v6.0.2
  • uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@57a97c7e41536f44adcf59faf14cd94554d91eb0 # v0.35.0

For every uses: line, look up the full 40-character commit SHA for the tag version and use that. Add a comment with the human-readable tag after the SHA.

The following is the prior conversation context from the user's chat exploration (may be truncated):

User: where do i use trivy actions in my github pipelines. give me a full overview

Assistant: Here's a full overview of all the places you use aquasecurity/trivy-action across your GitHub pipelines. I found 9 repositories using it, organized into 3 distinct usage patterns:


Summary Table

Repository Workflow File Trivy Version Scan Type Output Format Severity Filter
beevelop/docker-java docker.yml @0.35.0 image SARIF (template) (all)
beevelop/docker-cuberite docker.yml @master image SARIF (template) (all)
beevelop/docker-nodejs-python docker.yml @master image SARIF (template) (all)
beevelop/docker-uniqush docker.yml @master image SARIF (template) (all)
beevelop/docker-varnish docker.yml @master image SARIF (template) (all)
beevelop/docker-nodejs docker.yml @master image SARIF (template) (all)
beevelop/docker-hedgewars docker.yml @master image SARIF (template) (all)
beevelop/semiatrix build-studio-image.yml @master image SARIF + table CRITICAL,HIGH (SARIF) / CRITICAL,HIGH,MEDIUM (table)
beevelop/BeeCompose ci-cd.yml @master image JSON CRITICAL,HIGH,MEDIUM,LOW

Pattern 1: Docker Image Repos (Legacy Template) — 7 repos

Used in: docker-java, docker-cuberite, docker-nodejs-python, docker-uniqush, docker-varnish, docker-nodejs, docker-hedgewars

These all follow the same pattern — Trivy runs after docker/build-push-action, scans the built image, outputs SARIF using the legacy template approach, and uploads to the GitHub Security tab:

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@0.35.0  # or @master in other repos
        with:
          image-ref: ${{ env.imageName }}:${{ steps.docker_meta.outputs.version }}
          format: "template"
          template: "@/contrib/sarif.tpl"
          output: "trivy-results.sarif"
      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v4  # or @v1 in older repos
        with:
          sarif_file: "trivy-results.sarif"

⚠️ Note: 6 of these repos still pin to @master and use codeql-action/upload-sarif@v1 — only docker-java has been updated to @0.35.0 and upload-sarif@v4.


Pattern 2: Dedicated Security Scan Job — semiatrix

In beevelop/semiatrix, Trivy runs as a separate security-scan job that depends on build-and-push. It runs Trivy twice — once for SARIF upload and once for a human-readable table in the logs:

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}/${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}:latest
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
          severity: 'CRITICAL,HIGH'

      - name: Upload Trivy results to GitHub Security
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v4
        continue-on-error: true
        if: always()
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner...

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Update CI/CD workflow to pin GitHub Actions to SHA Security: Pin all GitHub Actions to SHA hashes in ci-cd.yml Mar 25, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from beevelop March 25, 2026 10:19
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