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Securing GitHub: Wiz Research uncovers Remote Code Execution in GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server (CVE-2026-3854)

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Wiz Research uncovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854) in GitHub's internal git infrastructure that could have affected both GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server. By exploiting an injection flaw in GitHub's internal protocol, any authenticated user could execute arbitrary commands on GitHub's backend servers with a single git push command - using nothing but a standard git client. Notably, this is one of the first critical vulnerabilities discovered in closed-source binaries using AI, highlighting a shift in how these flaws are identified. Despite the complexity of the underlying system, the vulnerability is remarkably easy to exploit. On GitHub.com, this vulnerability allowed remote code execution on shared storage nodes. We confirmed that millions of public and private repositories belonging to other users and organizations were accessible on the affected nodes.…

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