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:octocat: Github action to retrieve all (added, copied, modified, deleted, renamed, type changed, unmerged, unknown) files and directories.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2022-09-26 · latest 2025-04-05

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  1. …the tj-actions maintainer started locking threads and refusing to look into how the PAT was leaked. https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2464#issu...
  2. …Personal Access Token (PAT) and flagged the organization to prevent further exploitation. https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2464#issu...
  3. The GitHub repo and org disappeared while I was poking around. Both https://github.com/tj-actions and https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files return 404.
  4. User and repo all 404 now. https://github.com/tj-actions https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files
  5. …creds being compromised. The [malicious commit is masquerading as a commit from Renovate]( https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/commit/0e58ed867... )(( https://github.com/apps/renovate ) but it's not a `verified` commit (and so it's…
  6. …account, but unclear if it has write access. Edit: gurchik's guess at https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2463#issu... seems more likely: > 1. Fork the repository > > 2. Push compromised code to the fork > > 3. Up
  7. > https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/pull/2460 This kind of auto dependency bump bots are more trouble than their worth. If your app works today, bumping random deps won’t make it work better in any meaningful sense in 95% of…
  8. …ps://github.com/chains-project/maven-lockfile/issues/1085... > After some cleanup the changed-files ( https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files ) action seems to be more work to remove. It would be awesome if it could be added to the…
  9. A list of projects claimed to be using it from the GitHub page: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files?tab=readme-ov-fi...
  10. …specific case, the bad actor changes all of the version tags to point to their malicious commit: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/tags This required compromising the entire repository, yes? It can't be explained as the…
  11. …specific case, the bad actor changes all of the version tags to point to their malicious commit: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/tags So to avoid that you'd have to pin your GitHub Action to specific commits as outlined in this…
  12. …In this case the bad actor changed all of the version tags to point to their malicious commit. See https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/tags All the tags point to commit `^0e58ed8` https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/commit/0…
  13. …here -- the bad actor changed all of those version tags to point to their malicious commit. See https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/tags All the tags point to commit `^0e58ed8` https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/commit/0e58…
  14. Pretty good timing on the attacker. https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/tags?after=v35.9... Most folks around the world signed off. B-squad probably left cleaning up remaining tasks or just fucking around with co-workers and…
  15. https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2463
  16. See this action: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files
    comment by thaeli · 2022-09-26 · in GitHub Actions Pitfalls