We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes
A security firm discovered that Baseten's production GitHub repository was accessible via a valid admin token found within a publicly exposed Docker image. The autonomous hacking agent Strix identified the credential in the image build history, which granted full administrative and push access to critical internal repositories. Baseten's security team responded promptly to the report, confirming the critical vulnerability and rotating the compromised token within a day.
- ▪Strix, an autonomous hacking agent, found a live GitHub personal access token with admin rights in a public Harbor registry image.
- ▪The exposed token provided access to Baseten's main product repository, GitOps infrastructure, and customer-specific private repositories.
- ▪The vulnerability stemmed from a GitHub token being inadvertently included in the Docker image build history of the baseten/baseten-app container.
- ▪Baseten's security team classified the issue as critical and successfully locked down the registry and rotated the token by the following afternoon.
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| Original publisher | Strix |
| Canonical URL | https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:11:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T18:26:52.506Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T18:26:52.506Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 6eaVGFl1bGAy · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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We were about to trust Baseten with our own and our customers’ data. So to be safe, we ran Strix to ensure they were secure first. About 25 minutes later, it had a live GitHub token with repository-level admin rights on internal Baseten repos. We build Strix, an autonomous hacking agent, which of course means we need (cheap and fast) inference. We were exploring our options, and Baseten is one of the obvious choices. It's a great product, they're valued at $13 billion, and a lot of serious companies depend on them. But... we're a security company. Before we give a third party our data, models, or code, we scan them.
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