CVE-2022-46256

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

14/12/2022

Last modified:

22/04/2025

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed remote code execution when building a GitHub Pages site. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need permission to create and build a GitHub Pages site on the instance. This vulnerability was fixed in versions 3.3.17, 3.4.12, 3.5.9, 3.6.5 and 3.7.2. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server::::::::		3.3.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server::::::::	3.4.0 (including)	3.4.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server::::::::	3.5.0 (including)	3.5.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server::::::::	3.6.0 (including)	3.6.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server::::::::	3.7.0 (including)	3.7.2 (excluding)

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CVE-2022-46256

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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