• January 25, 2026
• in CI/CD Security, GitHub Security
• 6 min read

Bypassing GitHub Branch Protection — An Adversary’s Perspective

Assume the build environment is already compromised.
Assume the attacker has obtained a GitHub token.

This post focuses only on GitHub Branch Protection bypass techniques, from an adversary mindset, after compromising a CI/CD environment and extracting a privileged token.

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