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Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data

lowthehackernewsPublished 2026-07-07

A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization's private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown.

The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen credentials and no access to the organization. If that organization has given the agent read access across its repositories, private ones

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Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/public-github-issue-could-trick-github.html