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GitHub Inadvertently Exposed Webhook Secrets in HTTP Headers for Months

GitHub's webhook delivery platform included webhook secrets in an unintended HTTP header between September 2025 and January 2026, making secrets accessible to receiving endpoints. While TLS encrypted transit, any logging at the endpoint could have captured the secrets in base64-encoded form. This is a platform-level security disclosure, not an addressable market problem.

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