OVHcloud warns compromised CLI versions could steal local secrets

Founder and CEO Octave Klaba said an attacker used a developer's GitHub account to add a credential-stealing binary to OVHcloud CLI versions 0.11.0 through 0.15.0. He urged users to rotate secrets.

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Why it matters

The CLI can hold credentials with access to cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows. Klaba urged users of versions 0.11.0 through 0.15.0 to remove the binary and rotate secrets, but his warning does not identify which distribution channels carried it or whether any credentials were stolen.

Octave Klaba (@olesovhcom): Si vous avez téléchargé aujourd'hui la dernière version de CLI d'OVHcloud, merci de la mettre à jour à nouveau très rapidement.

Octave Klaba (@olesovhcom), OVHcloud's founder and CEO, warned users on October 19th that compromised versions of the company's command-line interface contained a binary designed to collect secrets from users' computers. Klaba said an attacker used a developer's GitHub account to add the binary. His post on X named versions 0.11.0 through 0.15.0 as compromised, and versions 0.10.0 and 0.16.0 as clean.…

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