Security Analysis: CodeRabbit Vulnerability Led to RCE and Access to 1 Million Repositories
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Summary
A detailed security disclosure explaining how researchers achieved remote code execution on CodeRabbit's production servers, leaked API tokens and secrets, gained potential access to their PostgreSQL database, and obtained read/write access to 1 million code repositories including private ones. The post serves as an educational case study from Black Hat USA to help others avoid similar security vulnerabilities.
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leaked their API tokens and secrets
how we could have accessed their PostgreSQL database
obtained read and write access to 1 million code repositories, including private ones
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