Trivy Compromised a Second Time - Malicious v0.69.4 Release, aquasecurity/setup-trivy, aquasecurity/trivy-action GitHub Actions Compromised - StepSecurity

On March 19, 2026, trivy — a widely used open source vulnerability scanner maintained by Aqua Security — experienced a second security incident. Three weeks after the hackerbot-claw incident on February 28 that resulted in a repository takeover, a new compromised release (v0.69.4) was published to the trivy repository. The original incident disclosure discussion (#10265) was also deleted during this period, and version tags on the aquasecurity/setup-trivy GitHub Action were removed. Trivy maintainers deleted the v0.69.4 tag and Homebrew downgraded to v0.69.3. The following is a factual account of what we observed through public GitHub data.

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