--- title: Long Live the Pwn Request: Hacking Microsoft GitHub... description: Pwn Requests and Injection attacks are an attack type that exploits a vulnerability where a repository runs a workflow on a pull_request_target trigger and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/long-live-the-pwn-request-hacking-microsoft-github-repositories-and-more-qkrua5cgm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Long Live the Pwn Request: Hacking Microsoft GitHub Repositories and More | daily.dev og:description: Pwn Requests and Injection attacks are an attack type that exploits a vulnerability where a repository runs a workflow on a pull_request_target trigger and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/long-live-the-pwn-request-hacking-microsoft-github-repositories-and-more-qkrua5cgm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QkRuA5Cgm.png og:image:alt: Long Live the Pwn Request: Hacking Microsoft GitHub Repositories and More og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Long Live the Pwn Request: Hacking Microsoft GitHub Repositories and More **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 14 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pwn Requests and Injection attacks are an attack type that exploits a vulnerability where a repository runs a workflow on a pull_request_target trigger and proceeds to check out and run code from the PR branch. 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