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CVE-2024-8810

Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Publication date:
07/11/2024
Last modified:
27/08/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 4.0
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/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.70 HIGH
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/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:L/U:Amber

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Attack Requirements (AT): Present
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): Active
Confidentiality (VC): High
Integrity (VI): High
Availability (VA): High
Confidentiality (SC): High
Integrity (SI): High
Availability (SA): High
Safety (S): Present
Automatable (AU): No
Recovery (R): User
Value Density (V): Concentrated
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Low
Provider Urgency (U): Amber

Base Score 4.0
8.70
Severity 4.0
HIGH
Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.10.0 (including) 3.10.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.11.0 (including) 3.11.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.12.0 (including) 3.12.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.13.0 (including) 3.13.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:3.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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