octo-sts allows unauthenticated attackers to cause unbounded CPU and memory usage

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    "title": "octo-sts allows unauthenticated attackers to cause unbounded CPU and memory usage",
    "summary": "octo-sts is a GitHub App that acts like a Security Token Service (STS) for the Github API. This vulnerability can spike the resource utilization of the STS service, and combined with a significant traffic volume could potentially lead to a denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.0",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.897975276Z",
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