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GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A critical remote code execution vulnerability was discovered using an AI model and patched within hours. A critical remote code execution vulnerability was discovered using an AI model and patched within hours. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. GitHub employees fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in less than six hours last month. Wiz Research used AI models to uncover a vulnerability in GitHub’s internal git infrastructure that could have allowed attackers to access millions of public and private code repositories. “Our security team immediately began validating the bug bounty report. Within 40 minutes, we had reproduced the vulnerability internally and confirmed the severity,” explains Alexis Wales, GitHub chief information security officer. “This was a critical issu

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