[bspammer]

That's irrelevant in the context of GitHub Actions: CI runners clone the repo fresh every run. If someone gets write access to a widely used action, they can force push all tags to point to a malicious commit.

This is even in GitHub's docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure...

> Pinning an action to a full-length commit SHA is currently the only way to use an action as an immutable release. Pinning to a particular SHA helps mitigate the risk of a bad actor adding a backdoor to the action's repository, as they would need to generate a SHA-1 collision for a valid Git object payload.