CVE-2026-31976CWE-506

xygeni-action v5 tag poisoned with C2 backdoor

Critical · published March 11, 2026

CVSS v4.0
9.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
58.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

xygeni-action is the GitHub Action for Xygeni Scanner. On March 3, 2026, an attacker with access to compromised credentials created a series of pull requests (#46, #47, #48) injecting obfuscated shell code into action.yml. The PRs were blocked by branch protection rules and never merged into the main branch. However, the attacker used the compromised GitHub App credentials to move the mutable v5 tag to point at the malicious commit (4bf1d4e19ad81a3e8d4063755ae0f482dd3baf12) from one of the unmerged PRs. This commit remained in the repository's git object store, and any workflow referencing @v5 would fetch and execute it. This is a supply chain compromise via tag poisoning. Any GitHub Actions workflow referencing xygeni/xygeni-action@v5 during the affected window (approximately March 3–10, 2026) executed a C2 implant that granted the attacker arbitrary command execution on the CI runner for up to 180 seconds per workflow run.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
9.3 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00860 · 58.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-506 · Embedded Malicious Code
Published
2026-03-11T19:44Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 MAR 19:44Z
    xygeni-action v5 tag poisoned with C2 backdoor
    cvelistv5