CVE-2021-41598

UI misrepresentation of granted permissions in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to unauthorized access to user

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jan 25, 2022
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Sep 24, 2021

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Description

A UI misrepresentation vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed more permissions to be granted during a GitHub App's user-authorization web flow than was displayed to the user during approval. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to create a GitHub App on the instance and have a user authorize the application through the web authentication flow. All permissions being granted would properly be shown during the first authorization, but if the user later updated the set of repositories the app was installed on after the GitHub App had configured additional user-level permissions, those additional permissions would not be displayed, leading to more permissions being granted than the user potentially intended. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.3 and was fixed in versions 3.2.5, 3.1.13, 3.0.21. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

  • CWE-451 User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information

Affected Products

ProductVersions
GitHub Enterprise ServerGitHub
  • 3.0 to before 3.0.21Affected
  • 3.1 to before 3.1.13Affected
  • 3.2 to before 3.2.5Affected

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