- 25th May 2026
An attacker with push access to the Laravel-Lang GitHub organization force-rewrote 700+ git tags across 4 Composer packages on May 22, 2026, injecting an RCE backdoor that fires on every PHP application boot. No CVE was assigned — version pinning offered zero protection. The attack stole CI/CD, cloud, and Kubernetes credentials in 3.16 seconds flat.
Francesco Cipollone