Compromising CI/CD Pipelines with Leaked Credentials [Security Zines]

Security Zines' Rohit Sehgal is back with an example case of how forgotten Jenkins credentials can lead to the complete compromise of a software supply chain.

Let's see:  

1. What is a Jenkins pipeline?
2. What is CI/CD?
3. Why credentials are required in pipelines?
4. Problems with credentials.
5. Attack Scenario.

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Security Zines is a project led by Rohit Sehgal, Staff Security Engineer at Gojek. Check out his work at securityzines.com/#comics and give him a follow on Twitter @sec_r0 to see what he comes up with next!

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