GitHub Security Lab

Securing the world's software, together

GitHub Security Lab

Securing the world's software, together

GitHub Security Lab’s mission is to inspire and enable the community to secure the open source software we all depend on.

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What we do

Find vulnerabilities

Our researchers find and report new vulnerabilities in the open source projects everyone relies on.

Educate the community

We share our research through proof-of-concepts, articles, tutorials, conferences and community events.

Amplify security research

We scale the security research of our community by performing Variants Analysis for open source projects with CodeQL.

Notify the ecosystem

We curate a database of CVEs and security advisories to notify open source developers and maintainers.

Our principles

Empower others

Make securing open source easy for developers and maintainers.

Foster collaboration

Build a community of security researchers to serve the global open source community.

Vulnerabilities we've disclosed so far

Arbitrary Intent in WordPress for Android leads to read and write access

GHSL-2022-046 • published 2022/08/12 00:00:00 ago • discovered by team
ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) in Dependency Parser

GHSL-2021-111 • published 2022/08/12 00:00:00 ago • discovered by team
Use-after-free in alias memory of the Arm Mali gpu kernel driver - CVE-2022-20186

GHSL-2022-053 • CVE-2022-20186 • published 2022/07/29 00:00:00 ago • discovered by Man Yue Mo
Arbitrary command execution through Apache Commons Configuration - CVE-2022-33980

GHSL-2022-017 • CVE-2022-33980 • published 2022/07/14 00:00:00 ago • discovered by Alvaro Munoz
Use After Free (UAF) in Qualcomm NPU driver - CVE-2022-22068

GHSL-2022-038 • CVE-2022-22068 • published 2022/06/22 00:00:00 ago • discovered by Man Yue Mo

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337 CVEs found

by Security Lab researchers

214 since March 2020

Meet the team

Peter Stöckli

Helping developers by breaking things.

@p-

@ulldma

Kevin Stubbings

Alright get out. From now on I'll do the memory managing around here.

@kwstubbs

Madison Oliver

Security transparency advocate

@taladrane

Xavier René-Corail

3-legged race organizer: Building bridges between Dev and Sec

@xcorail

Man Yue Mo

Security scavenger

@m-y-mo

@mmolgtm

Nancy Gariché

Community Building as Secure Code

@nanzggits

Chamari Tucker

Hacker where? Hacker there.

@callmeMari

Ron Wochner

Breaker of things, fixer of some, curator of many.

@ronwoch

Jaroslav Lobacevski

Security panda

@jarlob

@yarlob

Joseph Katsioloudes

Making security easy for developers

@jkcso

Shelby Cunningham

Security mostly, with privacy and retro if there's time.

@shelbyc

@shelbyc64

Hauwa Otori

Operations and coalition builder for security research

@hauwaotori

Agustin Gianni

Avoiding grep since 1999 AD

@agustingianni

Antonio Morales

EthicalHackerBugHunter & C++; 3735928559

@antonio-morales

@nosoynadiemas

Ryan Finn

Valiantly verifying vexatious vulnerabilities

@vulnerabilityviper

Jorge Rosillo

while true; do ./research; ./ctf; done

@jorgectf

@jorge_ctf

Alvaro Munoz

Hacking since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

@pwntester

Phil Turnbull

security shenanigans

@philipturnbull

Kevin Backhouse

Catching up on all the hacking that I should have done in the 1990s

@kevinbackhouse

@kevin_backhouse

Jonathan Moroney

Seeking safer software

@darakian

@Hooray_Darakian

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Our latest research

Coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) for open source projects

A comprehensive guide for vulnerability reporters.

Nancy Gariché

February 9, 2022

Fuzzing sockets: Apache HTTP, Part 3: Results

In the finale of the Fuzzing sockets series, Antonio shares the results of his research on Apache HTTP server.

Antonio Morales

December 21, 2021

Getting root on Ubuntu through wishful thinking

How to exploit a double-free vulnerability in Ubuntu's accountsservice (CVE-2021-3939).

Kevin Backhouse

December 13, 2021

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