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A PR That Could Break 1M Repos? This AI Bug Is Chilling

CodeRabbit AI vulnerability: A single PR risked RCE & write access to 1M+ code repos. A major security wake-up call for AI coding tools.

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Meng Li
Aug 20, 2025
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While browsing Hacker News today, I came across a post that shocked me so much I almost spilled my coffee!

It was about how they exploited CodeRabbit: **from a simple PR to RCE, and then to write access to 1 million code repositories**.

Over 500 upvotes, nearly 200 comments, and the post was absolutely blowing up.

To be honest, seeing the words “write access to 1 million code repositories” gave me chills. Nowadays, who hasn’t used a few AI coding assistants? If your company’s codebase got hit by this, the consequences would be unthinkable…

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