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GHSA-3M2P-XPV4-JFJM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-03-21 03:36 – Updated: 2025-09-02 15:31

Details

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker to use the Enterprise Actions GitHub Connect download token to fetch private repository data. An attacker would require an account on the server instance with non-default settings for GitHub Connect. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.12 and was fixed in versions 3.8.16, 3.9.11, 3.10.8, and 3.11.6. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Severity

6.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2024-1908 (GCVE-0-2024-1908)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-29 18:23 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:06

Title

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed Privilege Escalation

Summary

Severity

6.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-05 15:05 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

GitHub_P mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.8/…
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.9/…
https://https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-ser…
https://https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-ser…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
GitHub	Enterprise Server	Affected: 3.8.0 , < 3.8.16 (semver) Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.11 (semver ) Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.8 (semver) Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.6 (semver) Unaffected: 3.12.0

Date Public

2024-02-29 18:24

Credits

ahacker1

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