Morning Overview on MSN

A single 'git push' could hijack millions of GitHub repositories — and nobody knew for weeks

Sometime in early 2026, a flaw hiding inside one of the most routine actions in software development went live on the world’s ...
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GitHub fixes critical flaw in private repositories

Critical flaw patched: GitHub addressed a remote code execution bug that could be exploited by anyone with push access to private repositories. High risk exposure: The vulnerability threatened ...
The Hacker News

Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push

CVE-2026-3854 (CVSS 8.7) enabled GitHub RCE via git push, risking cross-tenant access to millions of repositories.
TheServerSide

How to use the git remote add origin command

How do you connect a local Git repo to a remote repository your team has set up in GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket? There are two ways to push a local project to a remote Git repo: the recommended way, ...
CSO Online

Critical GitHub RCE bug exposed millions of repositories

The now‑patched flaw allowed authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via crafted git push requests, affecting ...
Bleeping Computer

Here's how a researcher broke into Microsoft VS Code's GitHub

This month a researcher has disclosed how he broke into the official GitHub repository of Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A vulnerability in VS Code's issue management function and a lack of ...

GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server: Code smuggling via push

In GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server, attackers with push rights to repositories can inject malicious code. Updates fix ...
ZDNet

Linux kernel source code repositories get better security

Immediately after the 2011 break-in, the Linux Foundation began "mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux ...