How to Prevent Poisoned GitHub Actions Dependencies
freeCodeCamp · Sep 18, 2026
Your workflow uses actions/checkout@v4. Today, that tag points to a vetted release. Tomorrow, a compromised maintainer or attacker moves the tag to malicious code. Your pipeline runs it with access to
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