GitHub’s actions/checkout v7 now blocks risky fork PR checkouts in privileged workflows to reduce common pwn request attacks.

So, thanks to a helpful Github employee on StackOverflow, I learned that GHA has a couple of helpful "features" that were tripping me up: - The 'checkout@v2' action by default only does a minimal ...

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...