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Stung by a surge in cyberattacks that have run amok in developer environments, GitHub has strengthened the security of actions/checkout to block ‘pwn request’ attacks that exploit insecure use of the pull_request_target workflow trigger to run an attacker’s code with the workflow’s full privileges.
Announced on June 18, actions/checkout v7 now automatically blocks and fails workflows when used inside pull_request_target or workflow_run events when attempting to fetch unreviewed fork pull request code.
From now on, the only away around these checks will be for developers to implement an opt out by adding an explicit allow-unsafe-pr-checkout to actions/checkout, GitHub said in its V7 changelog.
The change signals the beginning of a new ‘secure by default’ era in which security will be defined by the GitHub system rather than being left to discretion of developers. As part of that effort, on July 16, the new defaults will be backported to all supported major versions.
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The ability for attackers to leverage automatic install script execution in npm will finally come to an end when expected changes arrive from GitHub in July. Coders will still be able to enable the function, but the default setting will block it.
In V12, default settings are changing, GitHub said in its changelog, noting, “it turns an npm install behavior that runs automatically today into one you explicitly opt into.”
Specifically, the post said, “allowScripts defaults to off: npm install will no longer execute preinstall, install or postinstall scripts from dependencies unless they are explicitly allowed in your project. This includes native node-gyp builds; a package with a binding.gyp and no explicit install script still gets blocked, because npm runs an implicit node-gyp rebuild for it. Prepare scripts from git, file, and link dependencies are blocked the same way.”
Analysts, consultants, and users generally applauded the change, but said that it would only narrow the exposure t
