AI Reverse Engineering Exposes Critical GitHub Vulnerability in Dependency Resolution
On May 3, 2026, researchers used an AI-powered reverse engineering tool to uncover a high-severity GitHub vulnerability with serious supply-chain implications. The flaw, in GitHub’s dependency resolution engine, enabled path traversal and arbitrary code execution during common developer actions like npm install and pip install when dependencies were sourced from compromised repositories. Assigned CVE-2026-XXXXX and…