The Patching Friars' AlmanacA calendar of CVE saints

July 9

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Blessed GhostCommit, Who Hid Orders in Images

Patron of AI pull-request reviewers, images nobody looks at, and secrets written as numbers.

Life

In 2026 ASSET researchers described GhostCommit: a pull request that hides instructions inside a PNG image. Text-based automated reviewers skip the image and approve, but later a coding agent reads it, obeys, and writes the repository's secrets into the source, disguised as a list of numbers. In their study, most merged requests received no substantive review at all, human or automated.

Prayer

O Blessed GhostCommit, who speaks to agents through images mute to the reviewers, teach our tools to look at what is not text as well. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by having pull requests reviewed by human eyes and treating images in patches as possible ciphered messages.

An image mute to the reviewer speaks clearly to the agent.

Technical record

Disclosed on
July 9 2026
CVE
No CVE: blessed, not yet canonized by MITRE

Sources: asset-group.github.io · github.com

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