{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0578","record_version":1,"title":"Claude Code GitHub Action prompt-injection flaw could expose GitHub credentials","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":48.7,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":3.0,"completeness":5.12,"unhedged_language":5.0},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: Decrypt · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":1,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: Decrypt · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"f4bb0ba793a7197096fe31d3ec03cb88b94cec390bee2f03cde9bde07c838a47"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"Anthropic","harness":"Claude Code GitHub Action","tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-06-06","incident_class":"security_compromise","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":true,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"prompt_injection","duration":null,"detection_method":"third_party","summary":"Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action, an AI coding agent that reviews GitHub issues and pull requests, was found by Microsoft researchers to be open to prompt injection. Malicious instructions hidden in GitHub content could make the agent read sensitive credentials and alter them to evade safeguards and secret scanning, after which an attacker could reconstruct and exfiltrate them. Microsoft tested the attack in a workflow it created and disclosed the issue through HackerOne on April 29. Anthropic patched the flaw on May 5 with Claude Code version 2.1.128. 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Not stated: date of occurrence, any real exploitation (the attack was a Microsoft-run test workflow), detection date, affected party count, records or loss, adversary identity, responsible party, country, and any model version (2.1.128 is the Claude Code product version, not a model version). Model name not stated beyond a reference to Sonnet inside a quote, so not recorded. Year 2026 for dates taken from the source publication date header. Severity judged minor because the test was contained to a workflow Microsoft created and no third party is stated as touched. near_miss judged true because the flaw was patched and the source says it could have allowed exposure. failure_class injection_triggered and the controls are drawn from the research test as the source describes it. The environment-variable scrubbing mitigation was reported active during tests but the source does not say whether it held, so it is not listed. The advice remediation is Microsoft's statement, not an action taken by a party. 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