Cordyceps: A Free GitHub Account Is All It Takes to Hijack CI/CD Pipelines at Microsoft, Google, Apache, and Cloudflare — 300+ Repos Confirmed Exploitable
Cordyceps is a systemic class of CI/CD workflow vulnerabilities discovered by Novee Security that allows any unauthenticated user with a free GitHub account to hijack build pipelines at Microsoft, Google, Apache, Cloudflare, and the Python Software Foundation. 300+ repositories confirmed fully exploitable across a scan of 30,000. No CVE — this is a misconfiguration class, not a single bug. AI coding agents are reproducing the insecure patterns at exponential scale. No confirmed exploitation in the wild. All named organizations have applied fixes.
