Riskcovery

CVE-2024-8810

Privilege Management vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed GitHub Apps to grant themselves write access

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Nov 7, 2024
Updated
Nov 8, 2024
Reserved
Sep 13, 2024

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Description

A GitHub App installed in organizations could upgrade some permissions from read to write access without approval from an organization administrator. An attacker would require an account with administrator access to install a malicious GitHub App. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.14 and was fixed in versions 3.14.1, 3.13.4, 3.12.9, 3.11.15, and 3.10.17. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:AmberGitHub_P

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Enterprise ServerGitHub
  • 3.10.0 through 3.10.16Affectedfrom 3.10.17Not affected
  • 3.11.0 through 3.11.14Affectedfrom 3.11.15Not affected
  • 3.12.0 through 3.12.8Affectedfrom 3.12.9Not affected
  • 3.13.0 through 3.13.3Affectedfrom 3.13.4Not affected
  • 3.14 through 3.14.0Affectedfrom 3.14.1Not affected

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