GitHub Vulnerability Let Attackers Hijack Thousands of Repositories

Researchers uncover a novel Github vulnerability that might let an attacker exploit a race condition in GitHub’s repository creation and username renaming operations. A Repojacking attack may be carried out using this method. Exploiting this issue successfully impacts the open-source community by allowing the hijacking of over 4,000 code packages in languages such as Go, PHP, […]

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