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Environment Variable Injection in CI/CD Pipelines
Environment variables in CI/CD systems carry secrets, configuration, and control flow. When attackers can inject or modify them, everything breaks.
May 8, 20234 min read
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Environment variables in CI/CD systems carry secrets, configuration, and control flow. When attackers can inject or modify them, everything breaks.
CI/CD pipelines trust environment variables implicitly. Injecting or modifying them can hijack builds, steal secrets, and compromise deployments.
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