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adnanthekhan

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    Comment #38996929

    This is more subtle, but there is an “author_association”field within Actions event contexts that can be one of: NONE, CONTRIBUTOR, COLLABORATOR, MEMBER, OWNER There are some cases…

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    Comment #38996642

    Yeah, the security posture of that repository is kind of a mess (which is why something like https://adnanthekhan.com/2023/12/20/one-supply-chain-attack-... was even possible in th…

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    Comment #38995662

    Correct. For fork PR workflows on the pull_request trigger the GITHUB_TOKEN has read only permissions, so you can’t do anything with it. The key thing with a non-ephemeral runner i…

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    Comment #38995288

    Oh, you'll like this one then. Until 3 months ago GitHub's Runner images was pulling a package directly from Aliyun's CDN. This was executed during image testing (version check). S…

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    Comment #38995257

    Yup! This is what makes this kind of attack scary and very unique to GitHub Actions. The baseline GITHUB_TOKEN just blows the door open on lateral movement via workflow_dispatch an…