CVE-2025-6981

Incorrect authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed unauthorized read-only access

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jul 15, 2025
Updated: Jul 16, 2025
Reserved: Jul 1, 2025

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Description

An incorrect authorization vulnerability allowed unauthorized read access to the contents of internal repositories for contractor accounts when the Contractors API feature was enabled. The Contractors API is a rarely-enabled feature in private preview. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.18 and was fixed in versions 3.14.15, 3.15.10, 3.16.6 and 3.17.3

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_P

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Enterprise ServerGitHub	3.14.0 to before 3.14.15Affectedfrom 3.14.15Not affected 3.15.0 to before 3.15.10Affectedfrom 3.15.10Not affected 3.16.0 to before 3.16.6Affectedfrom 3.16.6Not affected 3.17.0 to before 3.17.3Affectedfrom 3.17.3Not affected

References

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.14/admin/release-notes#3.14.15release-notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.15/admin/release-notes#3.15.10release-notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.16/admin/release-notes#3.16.6release-notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes#3.17.3release-notes

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