CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22863

8.1 HIGH Published 2021-03-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-285

Description

An improper access control vulnerability was identified in the GitHub Enterprise Server GraphQL API that allowed authenticated users of the instance to modify the maintainer collaboration permission of a pull request without proper authorization. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker would be able to gain access to head branches of pull requests opened on repositories of which they are a maintainer. Forking is disabled by default for organization owned private repositories and would prevent this vulnerability. Additionally, branch protections such as required pull request reviews or status checks would prevent unauthorized commits from being merged without further review or validation. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server since 2.12.22 and was fixed in versions 2.20.24, 2.21.15, 2.22.7 and 3.0.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Affected configurations

• github github (>= 2.12.22 < 2.20.24) • github github (>= 2.21.0 < 2.21.15) • github github (>= 2.22.0 < 2.22.7) • github github (>= 3.0.0 < 3.0.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness

References