Experts have revealed several critical vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions workflows which could pose serious risks to some major open source projects.
A recent investigation by Sysdig’s Threat Research Team (TRT) has exposed how misconfigurations, particularly involving the pull_request_target trigger, could let attackers seize control over active repositories or extract sensitive credentials. The team demonstrated this by compromising projects from well-known organizations such as MITRE and Splunk.
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