THIS IS IMPORTANT RELEASE
On March 19, 2026, attackers compromised the official Trivy vulnerability scanner.
They force-pushed 75 out of 76 version tags in the GitHub Action repository (aquasecurity/trivy-action) to inject a credential-stealing payload executed during GitHub Actions builds.
During this time, release v0.69.4 was also published. From public GitHub data: v0.69.4 tag was created, then deleted by a Trivy maintainer hours later. Exposure window: 2026-03-19 18:22 – ~21:42 CET.
The full technical analysis is available at https://www.abgeo.dev/blog/trivy-github-actions-compromised-full-payload-analysis/.
How does this affect Dockhand?
Dockhand does not use the compromised GitHub Action, but runs Trivy as a an Docker container (aquasec/trivy) with the following setup:
- The container receives the Docker socket (to access images for scanning) and it's own cache volume (for the vulnerability database)
- No host filesystem paths are mounted into the scanner container
- No Dockhand environment variables or credentials are passed to the scanner container
- The container runs a single scan command and exits
The attack targeted the GitHub Action repository. There is no confirmation whether the Docker Hub container images (aquasec/trivy) were also affected. …