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Codfish/semantic-release-action GitHub Action has been compromised (opens in new tab)

On June 24, 2026, an attacker compromised the codfish/semantic-release-action GitHub repository. At 15:39:06 UTC they force-pushed a malicious commit and repointed several version tags to that commit. As a result, any workflow running against those tags after that time executed the attacker's code inside its GitHub Actions runner.

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