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checkmarx-kics-dockerhub

Incident Summary

Checkmarx KICS DockerHub image compromised

In a second wave of the Checkmarx supply-chain incident, attackers published malicious tags for the public KICS DockerHub image. Checkmarx reported that the affected image tags were present on DockerHub on April 22, 2026, extending the campaign from source and CI assets into container distribution.

Date
2026-04-22
Category
Commercial
Target Surface
Other
Insertion Phase
distribution
Impact
Credential theft
Cause
Compromised Account/Credentials

What Was Affected

Package checkmarx-kics-dockerhub
LanguageGo
ComponentApplication
Artifact typeOCI image
Domain typecontainer host

Compromised Versions

  • v2.1.20-debian
  • v2.1.21-debian
  • debian
  • v2.1.21
  • v2.1.20
  • alpine
  • latest

Incident Context

Motive
Credential Theft
Attribution
Advanced Persistent Threat
Transitive
Yes
User Impact
0
Observed Duration
0 days

Evidence

Compromised Artifacts

External References

Source Data

Source record: proprietary/checkmarx-ast/meta.yaml