"GitHub Scrambles to Rotate Keys After Credentials in Production Containers Were Potentially Exposed"
"GitHub Scrambles to Rotate Keys After Credentials in Production Containers Were Potentially Exposed"
Due to a high-severity vulnerability that exposed credentials, GitHub has rotated a number of its keys. The vulnerability, disclosed through its bug bounty program, would give attackers access to credentials within a production container. The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) classified the flaw as an unsafe reflection exploit that could allow hackers to conduct Remote Code Execution (RCE) on compromised systems. This article continues to discuss the potential exploitation and impact of the security vulnerability as well as GitHub's response to it.