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> While running the exploit, CodeRabbit would still review our pull request and post a comment on the GitHub PR saying that it detected a critical security risk, yet the application would happily execute our code because it wouldn’t understand that this was actually running on their production system.

What a bizarre world we're living in, where computers can talk about how they're being hacked while it's happening.

Also, this is pretty worrisome:

> Being quick to respond and remediate, as the CodeRabbit team was, is a critical part of addressing vulnerabilities in modern, fast-moving environments. Other vendors we contacted never responded at all, and their products are still vulnerable. [emphasis mine]

Props to the CodeRabbit team, and, uh, watch yourself out there otherwise!

parent ketzo 1 year ago

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