DevSecOpsCI/CD PipelineSecurity Assessment
Your CI/CD pipeline has the keys to production. If it's compromised, an attacker can inject code into your builds, steal secrets from environment variables, or tamper with artifacts before they reach deployment. We test your pipeline end to end, from source control triggers and build runners to artifact registries and deployment targets.
Full Pipeline Review
Build runners, triggers, artifacts, and deployment targets
Supply Chain Focus
Dependency and artifact integrity verification
Multi-Platform Coverage
GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and more
Why CI/CD Security Matters
Your CI/CD pipeline is the gateway between code and production. A compromised pipeline can allow attackers to inject backdoors, steal secrets, tamper with artifacts, or deploy malicious code directly into production. Recent high-profile breaches like SolarWinds and Codecov demonstrate how pipeline compromises can have catastrophic ripple effects across entire supply chains.
Modern development practices emphasize speed and automation, but security often becomes an afterthought. Hardcoded credentials in build scripts, overly permissive CI service accounts, unverified dependencies, and lack of artifact signing create vulnerabilities that sophisticated attackers actively exploit. A single weak link in your pipeline can undermine all other security measures.
Our Assessment Methodology
Secrets & Credential Management
Analysis of how credentials, tokens, and sensitive values are stored, accessed, and exposed throughout the pipeline lifecycle.
Supply Chain Security
Evaluation of dependency management, artifact integrity, and third-party integration security.
Access Control & Permissions
Review of who and what can trigger builds, access secrets, approve deployments, and modify pipeline configurations.
Build & Deployment Security
Assessment of build runner isolation, artifact storage and transfer integrity, deployment credential handling, and production environment access from within CI jobs.
Pipeline Configuration Security
Analysis of CI/CD configuration files, workflow definitions, and trigger mechanisms for injection vectors, unsafe defaults, and overly permissive execution contexts.
Platforms We Cover
Key Security Areas
Key Risk Areas
Credential Exposure
API keys, tokens, and secrets leaked in code, logs, or configuration files
Insufficient Isolation
Shared build environments allowing cross-contamination and privilege escalation
Unverified Dependencies
Malicious or compromised packages introduced through dependency confusion, typosquatting, or lack of lockfile integrity
Pipeline Injection
Code injection through CI configuration manipulation or pull request abuse
Artifact Tampering
Unsigned artifacts or images modified between build and deployment without detection
Excessive Runner Permissions
Self-hosted runners with host-level access, persistent state, or shared credentials across projects
Pipeline Compromises Are Devastating
The xz-utils backdoor showed how a single compromised maintainer could insert a backdoor into a critical library through the build process, nearly affecting every major Linux distribution. The Codecov breach exfiltrated environment variables from thousands of CI jobs for months before anyone noticed. These attacks work because pipelines are trusted by design. They have access to source code, production secrets, deployment credentials, and artifact registries. When that trust is abused, the blast radius extends to every system the pipeline touches.
Find the injection points, secret leaks, and permission gaps in your pipeline before attackers use them to reach production.
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