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GitHub Advanced Security customers who are watching a repository’s secret scanning alerts will now receive an email notification when a contributor bypasses a secret blocked by push protection. Previously, notifications…

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now sort and filter their list of custom patterns at the repository, organization, and enterprise levels. This upgrade to the experience supports admins who need…

The dependency graph now shows additional metadata for Rust dependencies, and listed dependencies link back to the GitHub repositories for the package if available. Learn more about the dependency graph.

From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline.

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now retrieve repository code scanning results at the enterprise level via the GitHub REST API. This new endpoint supplements the existing repository-level and organization-level endpoints.…

Dependabot alerts will now be easier to prioritize with a new “Most Important” sort. For the alerts repository list view, by default, alerts will be sorted in a way to…

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data leaks and fraud. We have partnered…

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, our scans help prevent data leaks and fraud. We have partnered…

A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community.

On June 15th, we announced GitHub added malware advisories to the GitHub Advisory Database and will send malware alerts through Dependabot. Since shipping this change, we have received feedback that…

New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-1134, a type confusion in Chrome that I reported in March 2022, which allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site. I’ll also look at some past vulnerabilities of this type and some implementation details of inline cache in V8, the JavaScript engine of Chrome.

When using the GraphQL API, you can now filter Dependabot alerts by the scope of the dependency affected. The possible scopes are DEVELOPMENT or RUNTIME. Dependency scope information is available…

The GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang [Hex], Elixir, and more. This brings the Advisory Database to nine supported ecosystems, including: Composer, Go, Maven, npm, NuGet,…

We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.

Today, we’re shipping a new filter for the Dependabot alerts list view. In the alerts list view, you can now filter for scope:development or scope:runtime. Alerts for development dependencies also…

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now use cursors to paginate over alert results they retrieve via the repository and organization level REST APIs. Paginating with cursors, using the new before…

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now see an overview of code scanning alerts at the enterprise level. This page provides a repo-centric view of application security risks, as well as…

We’re releasing exciting functionalities that will enable organizations to confidently manage and scale with Codespaces.

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, we help protect users from data leaks and fraud associated with…