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by esafak 401 days ago
Where can I read about this? I see no reference in its repo: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atj-actions%2Fchanged-file...
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Every action gets these permissions by default. The reason we know it had that permission is that the exploit code read from /proc/pid/mem to steal the secrets, which requires some permissions: https://blog.cloudflare.com/diving-into-proc-pid-mem/#access...

Linux processes have tons of default permissions that they don't really need.