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Flaw in Microsoft-owned GitHub repository allowed RCE via issue submission | news | SC Media (www.scworld.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

A GitHub Actions workflow caused the body of any issue created on the repo to be directly inserted into a Python here-doc without sanitization, Tenable said. An attacker could have used triple-quote string terminators to escape the string literal, injecting Python code to be executed.

Hey siri why do we distrust user input