GitHub Vulnerability Put Code Packages at Risk of Repojacking

A new vulnerability found in GitHub’s operations could have given bad actors another way of getting around the code hosting platform’s security protections and exposing thousands of code packages to being hijacked. A hacker could have exploited the vulnerability to run a Repojacking attack by getting around GitHub’s popular repository namespace retirement mechanism, a tool..

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