New Video: deep dive into CVE-2026–3854 — a critical RCE in GitHub

:loudspeaker: New video on the “AppSec Untangled” YouTube channel!

In this video, I do a deep dive into CVE-2026–3854 — a critical RCE in GitHub where a single git push command with a carefully crafted option was enough to execute code on GitHub’s backend and access millions of private repositories belonging to other customers :unlocked:

I also cover 4 practical lessons we can take from this as application security engineers:

:small_blue_diamond: Input validation — and why it needs to apply at every level of nesting, not just the outer layer
:small_blue_diamond: Why SAST wouldn’t have caught this — and what to do instead
:small_blue_diamond: Least privilege — scoping down credentials to limit blast radius
:small_blue_diamond: Tenant isolation — and why application-level isolation isn’t always enough

Hope you find it useful!
Link :link:: https://youtu.be/XPcTuNEPLu0

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Thanks for sharing!

It is both unsettling and reassuring to see that even major players are not immune to this kind of thing.