When AppSec Scanners Become a Supply Chain Attack Vector
New research reveals AppSec scanners embedded in CI/CD pipelines can be subverted into supply-chain attack vectors—teams must treat security tooling as part of the attack surface.
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New research shows how security scanners embedded in the software supply chain can be attacked to serve as a foothold for downstream attacks.
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises implicitly trust their security scanners; weaponising them undermines a core assumption of DevSecOps and could allow attackers to persist undetected within the development pipeline.
Isolate AppSec scanners in hardened, least-privilege environments and validate their integrity as part of regular supply-chain audits.
Security scanning tools themselves can become supply-chain attack vectors—toolchain integrity must be verified.
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