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Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible

TL;DR : GitHub Actions provides a policy mechanism for limiting the kinds of actions and reusable workflows that can be used within a repository, organization, or entire enterprise. Unfortunately, this mechanism is trivial to bypass . GitHub has told me that they don’t consider this a security issue (I disagree), so…
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Jun 11, 2025Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible by woodruffw247119

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