AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Twirrim wrote: post #4

forestry wrote: post #3

Peer review of changes is still important.

You can't rely on people spotting the significance of such changes

^^

Absolutely.

Nothing in the PR jumps out as a red flag. Unless you know how the internals work, I suppose.

Re: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

#7

Post by Rumudiez » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

forestry wrote: post #3

Peer review of changes is still important.

Multi-model cross-review is important

Re: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

#8

Post by eithed » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

Twirrim wrote: post #4

forestry wrote: post #3

Peer review of changes is still important.

You can't rely on people spotting the significance of such changes

Tests would have caught it = https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint injection check

Re: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

#9

Post by chrisjj » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

> a single quote in the title breaks out of echo '...' and allows arbitrary command execution.

Quote injection still alive and well in 2026. Gawd.

Re: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

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Post by chrisjj » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

fn-mote wrote: post #6

Twirrim wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't rely on people spotting the significance of such changes

^^ Absolutely. Nothing in the PR jumps out as a red flag. Unless you know how the internals work, I suppose.

> Nothing in the PR jumps out as a red flag.

Made by AI?