{"id":239512,"date":"2026-06-24T06:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/github-updates-actions-checkout-to-block-common-pwn-request-attack-patterns"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:17:52","slug":"github-updates-actions-checkout-to-block-common-pwn-request-attack-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/github-updates-actions-checkout-to-block-common-pwn-request-attack-patterns","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Updates actions\/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/github-updates-actions-checkout-to-block-common-pwn-request-attack-patterns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GitHub\u2019s actions\/checkout v7 now blocks risky fork PR checkouts in privileged workflows to reduce common pwn request attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub\u2019s actions\/checkout v7 now blocks risky fork PR checkouts in privileged workflows to reduce common pwn request attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}