fix: pass git auth via environment variables instead of writing to .git/config by Copilot · Pull Request #19963 · github/gh-aw

Copilot · 2026-03-07T14:18:10Z

Writing the GitHub token to .git/config (even briefly with try/finally cleanup) exposes it to attackers monitoring file system events (e.g., inotify). The token existed on disk during the entire fetch window.

Changes

generate_git_patch.cjs: Replace git config --local + finally cleanup with GIT_CONFIG_COUNT/KEY/VALUE env vars scoped to the fetch subprocess. The token never touches disk.

// Before: writes token to .git/config, cleans up in finally
execGitSync(["config", "--local", extraHeaderKey, `Authorization: basic ${tokenBase64}`], { cwd });
// ... fetch ...
// finally: execGitSync(["config", "--local", "--unset-all", extraHeaderKey], { cwd });

// After: token lives only in subprocess memory
const fetchEnv = { ...process.env };
fetchEnv.GIT_CONFIG_COUNT = "1";
fetchEnv.GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0 = extraHeaderKey;
fetchEnv.GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0 = `Authorization: basic ${tokenBase64}`;
execGitSync(["fetch", "origin", "--", `...`], { cwd, env: fetchEnv });

git_patch_integration.test.cjs: Update the two auth-cleanup tests to assert the extraheader is never written to git config (not merely cleaned up after use).

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Update generate git patch to avoid calling config and instead of environment variables or cli args to avoid writing the secret to a file. An attacker can be listening to file changes.

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… disk Instead of writing the GitHub token to .git/config via `git config --local` and cleaning it up in a finally block, pass the auth header via GIT_CONFIG_COUNT/KEY/VALUE environment variables. This ensures the token is never written to disk, eliminating the window where an attacker monitoring file changes could read the secret. Update integration tests to verify the token is never written to git config (rather than verifying it was cleaned up after use). Co-authored-by: pelikhan <4175913+pelikhan@users.noreply.github.com>

pelikhan · 2026-03-07T14:35:56Z

@copilot validate this approach from a correctness and feasibility

Copilot · 2026-03-07T14:39:48Z

@copilot validate this approach from a correctness and feasibility

The approach is correct and feasible:

Correctness:

GIT_CONFIG_COUNT/KEY/VALUE env vars are documented git behavior — they inject config into the git process's runtime configuration without touching any file on disk.
Verified via spawnSync: the env vars are correctly picked up by git and the header is never written to .git/config.
The vars are scoped to the single subprocess call — cleared automatically when the process exits.
When GITHUB_TOKEN is absent, the fetchEnv is a plain copy of process.env with no GIT_CONFIG_* keys — git behaves as normal.

Feasibility (version support):

GIT_CONFIG_COUNT was introduced in git 2.31.0 (March 2021).
ubuntu-latest GitHub Actions runners ship with git 2.34+ (22.04) or 2.43+ (24.04) — well above the requirement.
All 16 integration tests pass including the two that now assert the header is never written to .git/config.

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Pull request overview

This PR hardens generateGitPatch by avoiding writing Git auth headers (derived from GITHUB_TOKEN) to .git/config, instead scoping the header to the git fetch subprocess via GIT_CONFIG_* environment variables.

Changes:

Update incremental-mode git fetch to pass http.<server>/.extraheader via GIT_CONFIG_COUNT/KEY/VALUE env vars rather than git config --local ....
Update integration tests’ intent/messages around ensuring the auth extraheader is not persisted in local git config.

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File	Description
actions/setup/js/generate_git_patch.cjs	Switches incremental-mode fetch authentication from on-disk git config mutation to per-process env-based config injection.
actions/setup/js/git_patch_integration.test.cjs	Renames/rewrites auth-cleanup test descriptions to reflect that auth should not be written to `.git/config`.

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actions/setup/js/git_patch_integration.test.cjs:691

Same issue as the success-path test: checking git config --get ... after the call does not prove the header was never written, only that it is absent at the end. Consider asserting .git/config was not modified (mtime/mtimeNs unchanged) across the generateGitPatch invocation to ensure the token never touches disk even transiently.

        // Verify the extraheader was never written to git config (auth is passed via env vars)
        const configCheck = spawnSync("git", ["config", "--local", "--get", "http.https://github.example.com/.extraheader"], { cwd: workingRepo, encoding: "utf8" });
        // exit status 1 means the key does not exist — that is what we want
        expect(configCheck.status).toBe(1);

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Copilot · 2026-03-07T14:44:20Z

actions/setup/js/git_patch_integration.test.cjs

+        // Verify the extraheader was never written to git config (auth is passed via env vars)
        const configCheck = spawnSync("git", ["config", "--local", "--get", "http.https://github.example.com/.extraheader"], { cwd: workingRepo, encoding: "utf8" });
        // exit status 1 means the key does not exist — that is what we want
        expect(configCheck.status).toBe(1);


The new assertion only checks that the extraheader is absent after generateGitPatch finishes, which would also pass with the previous implementation that wrote the value to .git/config and then removed it in finally. To actually validate the “never written” behavior, add an assertion that .git/config was not modified during the call (e.g., record .git/config mtime/mtimeNs immediately before calling generateGitPatch and assert it is unchanged afterward).

This issue also appears on line 688 of the same file.

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[code-simplifier] refactor: extract shared sanitizeForFilename helper in generate_git_patch.cjs #19980

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