CVE-2023-6847

Improper Authentication in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to Authentication Bypass for Public Repository Data

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Dec 21, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Dec 15, 2023

Description

An improper authentication vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed a bypass of Private Mode by using a specially crafted API request. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need network access to the Enterprise Server appliance configured in Private Mode. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server since 3.9 and was fixed in version 3.9.7, 3.10.4, and 3.11.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_P

Weaknesses

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Enterprise ServerGitHub	3.9.0 to before 3.9.7Affected 3.10.0 to before 3.10.4Affected 3.11.0 to before 3.11.1Affected

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