OAuth marketplace apps keep access after publishers vanish

Installing an app from the Google Workspace Marketplace or GitHub Marketplace can grant a third party access to company email, files, calendars, code repositories, CI workflows, organization settings, and secrets. Marketplace presence gives these apps the appearance of approval. The OAuth grants behind them often reach into business systems beyond the listed function. An audit by OhAuth, the OAuth research project from identity security company Offroad, covered 2,890 public OAuth app listings, with 1,595 on … More → The post OAuth marketplace apps keep access after publishers vanish appeared first on Help Net Security.

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