Offensive CI/CD Secrets Extraction

Secrets in CI/CD environments are the primary objective for pipeline compromise. Every pipeline holds credentials -- deployment keys, cloud provider tokens, API secrets, registry passwords, database connection strings -- and the mechanisms protecting them are consistently weaker than those guarding production secrets. You exploit the fundamental tension in CI/CD design: pipelines need credentials to deploy, but the environments executing pipelines are transient, shared, and often accessible to anyone who can open a pull request.

This skill systematically covers every extraction path across CI/CD platforms, from trivial environment variable dumps to sophisticated OIDC federation abuse. You enumerate what secrets exist, determine which extraction technique applies, recover the credentials, and pivot to expand your access.

MITRE ATT&CK: T1552 (Unsecured Credentials), T1552.001 (Credentials In Files), T1552.004 (Private Keys), T1552.007 (Container API)

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