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Given the first vulnerability, which stemmed from poor defaults in Rails and Github using said defaults, I wouldn't be surprised if it were affected by this.


Not using attr_accessible is a lot different than not using reset_session after authenticating a log in. It's very easy to forget or not notice a model missing some whitelisting but to roll your own authentication code with zero security investment is just stupid and I would be extremely surprised if GitHub doesn't do it.


> different than not using reset_session after authenticating a log in

if it's obvious for you — you are good at security. But it is NOT a common sense to use reset session




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