VNX-GH-109: Action owner resembles a popular publisher

The action's owner is one character away from a widely used publisher.

Updated 02 Nov 2026Checked against cli@24498404a, vdb-sca-match@v0.8.14

Typosquatted owners (actoins/checkout, aws-action/…) are registered to catch mistyped references and run attacker code with the job’s privileges.


Severity	High
Confidence	medium
CWE	CWE-1357
Command	`vulnetix gha actions`, `vulnetix gha audit`
Mappings	T1195.001

Remediation

Check the owner’s spelling; reference the intended publisher.

Run only this rule

vulnetix gha actions --rule VNX-GH-109

Scoring

CWSS vector at the rule’s default severity: CWSS:1.0/TI:H/AP:A/AL:A/IC:N/FC:LT/RP:N/RL:A/AV:I/AS:N/IN:A/SC:A/BI:H/DI:H/EX:M/EC:N/P:W. A finding whose severity the repository’s settings moved is scored at its adjusted severity.

All rules: GitHub rules.

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