GitHub Actions Security Cheat Sheet

This article is the result of a collaboration with C.J. May.

“GitHub Actions keep me up at night. I worry that a malicious actor will use GitHub Actions to inject code into one of my repositories unbeknownst to me.”

Grayson Hardaway

GitHub Actions is an increasingly popular CI/CD platform. They allow to automate almost all the tasks of the development cycle while remaining easy to access. However, since they often use external code, they require some security measures to …

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