Security

GitHub’s supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report, and prevent security vulnerabilities.

GitHub’s bug bounty program is now a mature component of how we improve product security. We’re excited to highlight some achievements (and interesting vulnerabilities)!

polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.

GitHub secret scanning has been securing our users’ code by scanning for and revoking secrets since 2015. Recently, we’ve focused on scanning for package registry credentials as well—a significant and…

GitHub Actions provide a powerful, extensible way to automate software development workflows. When access to outside resources is required, GitHub provides the ability to store encrypted secrets used by GitHub…

In this second installment, I will focus on how to build our own custom ASAN interceptors in order to catch memory bugs when custom memory pools are implemented and also on how to intercept file system syscalls to detect logic errors in the target application.

When it comes to security research, the path from bug to vulnerability to exploit can be a long one. Security researchers often end their research journey at the “Proof of…

In this last post of the series, I’ll exploit a use-after-free in the Chrome renderer (CVE-2020-15972), a bug that I reported in September 2020 but turned out to be a duplicate, to gain remote code execution in the sandboxed renderer process in Chrome.

On March 8, we shared that, out of an abundance of caution, we logged all users out of GitHub.com due to a rare security vulnerability. We believe that transparency is…

Last month, a member of the CodeQL security community contributed multiple CodeQL queries for C# codebases that can help organizations assess whether they are affected by the SolarWinds nation-state attack on various parts of critical network infrastructure around the world.

In this series of posts, I’ll go through the exploit of three security bugs that I reported, which, when used together, can achieve remote kernel code execution in Qualcomm’s devices by visiting a malicious website in a beta version of Chrome. In this first post, I’ll exploit a use-after-free in Qualcomm’s kgsl driver (CVE-2020-11239), a bug that I reported in July 2020 and that was fixed in January 2021, to gain arbitrary kernel code execution from the application domain.

In this second post of the series, I’ll exploit a use-after-free in the Payment component of Chrome (1125614/GHSL-2020-165), a bug that I reported in September 2020 that only affected version 86 of Chrome, which was in beta. I’ll use it to escape the Chrome sandbox to gain privilege of a third party App on Android from a compromised renderer.

Dependabot’s mission is to keep all of your dependencies free of vulnerabilities and up-to-date, but until now, it hasn’t been able to update all of your private dependencies. That meant…

In this first episode, I’ll do a brief introduction on how Apache HTTP works, and I’ll give you some insights into custom mutators and how they can be applied to the HTTP protocol effectively.

Software security doesn’t end at the boundaries of your own code. The moment a library dependency is introduced, you’re adopting other people’s code and any bugs that come with it.…