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Re:We Executed a Critical Supply Chain Attack on PyTorch by trevyn on Sunday January 14, 2024 @06:23PM (#38995503)
To clarify, this secret stealing is not an issue with GitHub-hosted runners, correct?
Re:We Executed a Critical Supply Chain Attack on PyTorch by adnanthekhan on Sunday January 14, 2024 @06:43PM (#38995662)
Correct. For fork PR workflows on the pull_request trigger the GITHUB_TOKEN has read only permissions, so you can’t do anything with it.

The key thing with a non-ephemeral runner is that (after obtaining persistence) you can grab the GITHUB_TOKEN from a subsequent non-fork PR build or a build on another trigger, which will have write permissions unless restricted by the repository maintainers.