{"id":13823,"date":"2026-06-24T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/github-updates-actionscheckout-to-block-html\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:05:07","slug":"github-updates-actionscheckout-to-block-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/github-updates-actionscheckout-to-block-html\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Updates actions\/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    GitHub Updates actions\/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>GitHub is moving to strengthen software supply chain security by updating &#8220;actions\/checkout&#8221; to block pwn request attacks that exploit the risky use of the &#8220;pull_request_target workflow&#8221; trigger to run malicious code with the workflow&#8217;s full privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Effective June 18, 2026, the latest version of &#8220;actions\/checkout,&#8221; the official GitHub action for checking out a repository into the<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/github-updates-actionscheckout-to-block.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub Updates actions\/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns GitHub is moving to strengthen software supply chain security by updating &#8220;actions\/checkout&#8221; to block pwn request attacks that exploit the risky use of the &#8220;pull_request_target workflow&#8221; trigger to run malicious code with the workflow&#8217;s full privileges. Effective June 18, 2026, the latest version of &#8220;actions\/checkout,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}