Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
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Jun 11, 2025
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security
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 I’m publishing this post as-is.
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