hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
The title is actually "Wiz Red Agent Finds Its Way Into Snowflake’s Internal Jira Due to an AI-Generated GitHub Copilot Autofix"
🔥 Score 65.2
SecureAutofix: Jira AI Fix Guardian
Developers rely on AI to auto‑fix code, yet the wrong suggestions can expose critical tools like Jira to attackers, as Snowflake’s incident shows. SecureAutofix scans every AI‑generated patch in real time, flagging and blocking fixes that create new access paths or security gaps before they reach production.
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Raw Complaint Loghn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
It's interesting to look at what was being attempted when the vulnerability was introduced[0]> Workflows like jira_close.yml use deprecated atlassian JIRA actions and have a dependency on the gh-actions repo. This is not ideal and unecessarily complex. PR updates jira_close workflow to use direct API calls via curl. It preserves custom fields used too.I won't speak to this projects' management and how they prioritize things, but from my own experience, pre-AI, this type of change would have been firmly in the "this is a minor annoyance, put it in the Tech Debt Backlog alongside the 50000 other
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
It’s clear that they want this to be true so bad that they’re just not going to do it, and will spend a ton of money on quality gates and mitigation strategies instead of just reading some code.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
> The workflow had an if: condition that appeared protective:> if: (github.event_name == 'issues' && github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'whitesource-for-github-com[bot]')> However, on issues events, github.event.pull_request is always null.This is extra dumb because even if you thought this condition was correctly testing the user's identity, it shouldn't have "appeared protective" upon even a moment's thought. If it worked correctly, it would obviously just exclude one bot user while allowing all other users, so it wouldn't provide any protection at all.But more likely, this cond
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
No, Snowflake allowing autofixes compromised their Jira. If you tell someone to shoot you in the foot, and they shoot you in the foot, you shot yourself in the foot, just with more steps. If someone else finds the memo that says you've set up foot shooting as a service, and then they trigger that service, you still shot yourself in the foot.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
Github Actions is actually so incredibly scary to have on public repo. It's full of so many footguns that's far from obvious.It's a shame Github is buried under their current server issues, because it would be great to get improvements all of this - at least warning/erroring on these sorts of things themselves.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
And worse: GitHub Actions not a full-fledged programming environment by itself either, so you're inevitably going to have to deal with nontrivial shell scripts on top of all the YAML mess.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
I probably would have made the same mistake. It is negligent to write GitHub Actions without using static analysis.Use zizmor in CI https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor error[template-injection]: code injection via template expansion --> .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml:24:29 | 22 | run: | | --- this run block 23 | # Escape special characters in title and body 24 | TITLE=$(echo '${{ github.event.issue.title }}' | sed 's/"/\\"/g' | sed "s/'/\\\'/g") | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ may expand int
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