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Fix a privilege escalation vulnerability and spam potential via untrusted code execution in the entropy scan. - #8262

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Fix a privilege escalation vulnerability and spam potential via untrusted code execution in the entropy scan.#8262
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@akarnokd akarnokd commented Aug 5, 2026

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Previously, the attacker could have exfiltrated secrets, but only to spam the comments and perhaps social engineer more details out of us.

With help of Grok 4.5 super, in several steps, we fixed all the exfiltration paths.

Reported by https://github.com/August829

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🐷 TruffleHog + Entropy Beauty Scan

Average entropy of changed code: 4.64 bits/char
Verdict: ✅ Mid-4 beauty detected (thoughtful human code!)

Changed files entropy:

.github/workflows/compute-entropy.py: 4.803
.github/workflows/entropy-beauty-comment.yml: 4.596
.github/workflows/entropy-beauty-scan.yml: 4.523

✅ No secrets or suspicious high-entropy strings found.

Mid-4 beauty heuristic in action — powered by our entropy chats! 😊

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 98.58%. Comparing base (82afae4) to head (504e9e6).

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🐷 TruffleHog + Entropy Beauty Scan

Average entropy of changed code: 4.651 bits/char
Verdict: ✅ Mid-4 beauty detected (thoughtful human code!)

Changed files entropy:

.github/workflows/compute-entropy.py: 4.803
.github/workflows/entropy-beauty-comment.yml: 4.596
.github/workflows/entropy-beauty-scan.yml: 4.554

✅ No secrets or suspicious high-entropy strings found.

Mid-4 beauty heuristic in action — powered by our entropy chats! 😊

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akarnokd merged commit 354a02f into 4.x Aug 5, 2026
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