CVE-2025-30154
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.
do firstApply 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.
Can a WAF block it? No. The vulnerability involves malicious code added to a GitHub action that runs in the CI/CD environment, not triggered by HTTP requests. Therefore, a web application firewall cannot filter or block this kind of attack.
Also consider: SBOM · artifact signing
Based on an AI reading of the CVE description, and no vendor rule found yet. We check Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud Armor and Azure; for Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, F5, ask your vendor.
Is CVE-2025-30154 being exploited?
Yes. CVE-2025-30154 appears in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed and reported. Treat it as active rather than theoretical, and patch it ahead of higher-scoring vulnerabilities that carry no exploitation evidence.
How severe is CVE-2025-30154?
CVE-2025-30154 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.6. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-30154?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-30154. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-30154 affect?
CVE-2025-30154 affects reviewdog:action-ast-grep, reviewdog:action-composite-template, reviewdog:action-setup, reviewdog:action-shellcheck, and 2 further products or versions. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
- affected= 1
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.
cisa ssvc
- exploitation
- active
- automatable
- yes
- technical impact
- total
Assessed by CISA 25 Mar 2025 (SSVC 2.0.3).
timeline
- 19 Mar 2025Published
- 24 Mar 2025Added to CISA KEV (exploited in the wild) · 4 days later
- 25 Mar 2025CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation active · 1 day later
- 14 Apr 2025CISA remediation due date (US federal agencies) · 20 days later
- 26 Feb 2026CVE record last updated · 319 days (about 11 months) later
- 2 Nov 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com · 249 days (about 8 months) later
also known as
- Linkgithub.com /reviewdog/reviewdog/security/advisories/GHSA-qmg3-hpqr-gqvc
- Linkgithub.com /reviewdog/reviewdog/issues/2079
- Linkgithub.com /reviewdog/action-setup/commit/3f401fe1d58fe77e10d665ab713057375e39b887
- Linkgithub.com /reviewdog/action-setup/commit/f0d342d24037bb11d26b9bd8496e0808ba32e9ec
- Linkwiz.io /blog/new-github-action-supply-chain-attack-reviewdog-action-setup
- Linkcisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-30154
sources
- CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
- NVD: CVSS and CPE data
- CISA KEV catalog: exploitation, date added, due date
- CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
- FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
- OSV: advisory aliases and downstream package versions
- Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.