GitHub Actions platform vulnerable to code injection attacks – research

Source:-https://portswigger.net A design flaw in Actions, GitHub’s workflow management platform, can give hackers write access to repositories and reveal encrypted secrets, Google Project Zero researcher Felix Wilhelm has reported. An attacker can exploit set-env, one of the commands supported by GitHub Actions, to dump NodeJS commands to the shell output, which are then processed and run by Actions’ runner process. “As the runner process parses every line printed to STDOUT looking for workflow commands, every GitHub action that prints untrusted

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