CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-6800

9.5 CRITICAL Published 2024-08-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-08-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
9.5 CRITICAL — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L/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:X/AU:X/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-347

Description

An XML signature wrapping vulnerability was present in GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) when using SAML authentication with specific identity providers utilizing publicly exposed signed federation metadata XML. This vulnerability allowed an attacker with direct network access to GitHub Enterprise Server to forge a SAML response to provision and/or gain access to a user with site administrator privileges. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow unauthorized access to the instance without requiring prior authentication. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.14 and was fixed in versions 3.13.3, 3.12.8, 3.11.14, and 3.10.16. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Affected configurations

• github enterprise server (>= 3.10.0 < 3.10.16) • github enterprise server (>= 3.11.0 < 3.11.14) • github enterprise server (>= 3.12.0 < 3.12.8) • github enterprise server (>= 3.13.0 < 3.13.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References