"Thousands of Open-Source Projects' Secrets Revealed via Travis CI Flaw"

The Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) service for cloud platform projects, Travis CI, has addressed a severe security flaw, which exposed API keys, access tokens, and credentials, posing a significant threat to businesses that set public source code repositories. Travis CI is an online CI/CD solution for developing and testing software projects hosted on Bitbucket and GitHub. The exploitation of the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-41077, could lead to the unauthorized access and theft of secret environment data associated with a public open-source project, such as access credentials, during the software development process. Felix Lange of Ethereum has been credited with discovering the leakage on September 7. The company's Péter Szilágyi emphasized that anyone could exfiltrate such data and gain lateral movement into thousands of organizations. The problem lasted for eight days, from September 3 to September 10, before Travis CI fixed it. On September 13, the DevOps platform firm issued a security advisory, calling on Public and Private Repository customers to regularly rotate their keys. Its second notification claimed that there was no indication that unauthorized parties had leveraged the potential exposure. This article continues to discuss the Travis CI flaw that put thousands of organizations at risk. 

CyberIntelMag reports "Thousands of Open-Source Projects' Secrets Revealed via Travis CI Flaw"