CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-7541

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-07 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-05-07
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/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:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause service disruption by sending crafted requests with deeply nested JSON payloads to an unauthenticated API endpoint. The endpoint parsed user-controlled JSON request bodies without size or depth limits, causing excessive CPU and memory consumption. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.20.2, 3.19.6, 3.18.9, 3.17.15, and 3.16.18. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Affected configurations

• github enterprise server (< 3.16.18) • github enterprise server (>= 3.17.0 < 3.17.15) • github enterprise server (>= 3.18.0 < 3.18.9) • github enterprise server (>= 3.19.0 < 3.19.6) • github enterprise server (>= 3.20.0 < 3.20.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References