Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program

2026-05-15T19:23:30Zd11649a44550cf7a179dc43a74182202fe15a803642b7cb8fff5ce308927cd0d
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What happened

Collection of GitHub Security blog posts (Mar–May 2026) covering: updates to the GitHub bug bounty program to prioritize higher‑quality submissions and clarify shared responsibility; rapid detection, validation, and remediation of a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the git-push pipeline (fixed within ~2 hours; no confirmed exploitation); new developer training and tooling including the GitHub Secure Code Game for agentic AI vulnerabilities, the Code Security Risk Assessment (free org-level scan), and expanded AI‑powered detections (CodeQL + AI) for broader language and框架·;

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