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Posted by bearsyankees 15 hours ago

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub(www.strix.ai)
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bearsyankees 15 hours ago|
We were (and still are) considering them as an inference provider and did a quick check first... but kudos to their team for the fast patch
vatsachak 14 hours ago||
We really are entering the AI economy.

Now if only we knew if the stonks would go up or down (due to global turmoil) before I throw my savings at the SPY

dgellow 14 hours ago|
Right now Trump is the wild card you have to take in account. He’s influencing the SPY way more than the AI trade
DANmode 9 hours ago||
How many ways will revert?
grey-area 12 hours ago||
…by finding an admin token in logs.
stopthe 13 hours ago||
So often recent breaches involve Github in one way or another. How is it still considered a sane choice to host anything proprietary there? If your business is built around open source, ok, put a mirror on Github. But CI/CD, gitops, FDEs' stuff have no place on a public cloud. C-level execs may not know bits from bytes, but by now they should've understood that this is akin to storing ammonium nitrate in the open air.
afdbcreid 12 hours ago||
This wasn't GitHub's fault in any way.
fulafel 1 hour ago||
Github personal access tokens are security footguns. This is an apparently old and forgotten image containing a token from 2023 and it the token gets you admin acces to their repos.
stevage 11 hours ago||
So many security breaches involve Linux in one way or another. Your argument doesn't really work.
sandeepkd 14 hours ago||
This sounds interesting and twisted in some sense

1. A start up is validating a service provider to ensure that they are secure enough so that they can trust them before signing up for their service

2. The service provider is already trusted by so many big name companies who handed over their data, the customers data to them

Should it not be other way around?

On a different note, the finding is not just one off absolute, rather its a symptom which points to certain experience and expertise level for security practices. To be fair its hard to blame the start up folks, they are running against time and cutting corners is somewhat critical for survival for their business

bearsyankees 14 hours ago|
Yeah... interesting paradigm
eleumik 11 hours ago||
Always check. I used a disk wiper , I checked the disk sectors, bang files under 1kb not really wiped...my "secrets" case..
throwitaway222 13 hours ago||
It may make sense to change security practices so nothing has long term access. Everything should be rotated monthly, and maybe within a few years, hourly.
Watchtrail 11 hours ago|
Running a one-person SaaS, the honest failure mode isn't "we decided not to rotate", it's "rotation isn't automated so it just never happens". A stale token from 2023 still being alive in 2026 says less about policy and more about nobody having a reason to touch that code path in three years.

For a small team the fix that actually sticks is having the platform expire things by default (short-lived tokens, forced re-issue) rather than relying on a human remembering to rotate on a calendar. That calendar reminder is competing with every other thing on a solo dev's plate, and it reliably loses.

fhn 4 hours ago||
I'd call Docker out on this. Why the hell is it recording
athrowaway3z 14 hours ago||
A Markdown-as-a-Service where the interface is a Docker container.

I get how these choices might be the local optimum for a desired UX, but damn is it depressing to extrapolate where software as a whole is going.

hunterbrooks 13 hours ago|
Just signed up for strix, is it common for these type of products to want access to my Github repo's? Shouldn't the attack surface be outside them?
bearsyankees 13 hours ago|
You can also just do an external pentest -- Github is for continuous CI/CD coverage
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