Block GitHub Pull Requests With Exposed Secrets: New Ruleset Rule Setup Guide Push protection catches a lot of leaked secrets, but it has always had a gap: it only inspects the commits in a single git push. A secret that slipped in through a squash-merged branch, a force-push that bypassed protection, a fork PR from a …

GitHub Actions' New vulnerability-alerts Permission: Read Dependabot Alerts Without a PAT If you've ever tried to have a GitHub Actions workflow check for open Dependabot alerts — to block a release, gate a merge, or post a Slack summary — you've probably hit a wall: the default GITHUB_TOKEN can't read them. The …

GitHub Apps and OAuth Apps Get Refresh Tokens: How to Migrate Off Long-Lived Access Tokens If you've built an OAuth App or a GitHub App that authenticates on behalf of users, there's a decent chance it's still handing out a gho_ or ghu_ token that never expires. On August 14, 2026, GitHub shipped token rotation for …

Docker Hub OIDC for GitHub Actions: Retire Your Stored Access Tokens If your CI pipeline pushes images to Docker Hub, there's a good chance a Personal Access Token (PAT) or Organization Access Token (OAT) is sitting in your GitHub repository secrets right now — valid for months, scoped broader than you'd like, and one …

GitHub Actions Now Holds Suspicious Workflow Runs Before They Touch Your Secrets On July 28, 2026, GitHub started automatically holding workflow runs it identifies as potentially malicious before they execute. If a run gets flagged, it sits in a pending state until a repository collaborator with write access reviews …

GitHub Actions Checkout v7: Fixing the Pwn Request Vulnerability Before July 16 If your CI pipeline uses pull_request_target and checks out the pull request's head commit, actions/checkout@v7 will now refuse to do it. That's not a bug — it's GitHub closing one of the most common CI/CD attack patterns in the ecosystem, …