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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- active
- Confidentiality
- undefined
- Integrity
- undefined
- Availability
- undefined
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- GITHUB
- Published
- 11/7/2024
- Last Modified
- 8/27/2025
- 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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