Description
An attacker with an Administrator role in GitHub Enterprise Server could gain SSH root access via remote code execution. This vulnerability affected GitHub Enterprise Server version 3.8.0 and above and was fixed in version 3.8.17, 3.9.12, 3.10.9, 3.11.7 and 3.12.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20NVD-CWE-noinfo
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- GITHUB
- Published
- 3/20/2024
- Last Modified
- 9/4/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
github : enterprise_servergithub : enterprise_servergithub : enterprise_servergithub : enterprise_servergithub : enterprise_server
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