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Re:Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025 by woodruffw on Saturday November 29, 2025 @04:26PM (#46090942)
This is a great writeup, kudos for the PostHog folks.

Curious: would you be able to make your original exploitable workflow available for analysis? You note that a static analysis tool flagged it as potentially exploitable, but that the finding was suppressed under the belief that it was a false positive. I'm curious if there are additional indicators the tool could have detected that would have reduced the likelihood of premature suppression here.

(I tried to search for it, but couldn't immediately find it. I might be looking in the wrong repository, though.)

Re:Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025 by helpfulrobot on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:49PM (#46091550)
Here's the PR that introduced the vulnerability: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/37915
Re:Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025 by duck2 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @06:10PM (#46091700)
It's a bit funny the vuln was introduced by someone with the username "haacked"