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Comment by jamesberthoty

Does this seem like a plausible summary?

1. tj-actions-bot PAT spoofs renovatebot commit with malicious code - probably by creating a new unprotected branch, pushing to it spoofing the renovatebot user, then deleting the branch, but we really don't know.

2. Attacker uses PAT to also update release tags, pointing them to the malicious commit, again spoofing renovatebot

3. jackton1 tries to restore older branch, and therefore pushes the commit again. The original commit wouldn't be referenced as pushed in any pull requests

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