{"vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18365", "sightings": [{"uuid": "8c0ccde3-2c10-4627-92d9-1e2df05b8fcf", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "9f56dd64-161d-43a6-b9c3-555944290a09", "vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18365", "type": "seen", "source": "https://bsky.app/profile/beikokucyber.bsky.social/post/3m5ezvpjtzi2a", "content": "", "creation_timestamp": "2025-11-11T21:02:34.347695Z"}, {"uuid": "c5d19f70-2a4c-4a5e-a3d6-927018e78eb9", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "9f56dd64-161d-43a6-b9c3-555944290a09", "vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18365", "type": "seen", "source": "MISP/a9d21043-f825-4bac-8d2b-56fb9e8343e7", "content": "", "creation_timestamp": "2025-10-23T21:12:58.000000Z"}, {"uuid": "8aee915f-670e-430e-b7f7-e744d837dad4", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "9f56dd64-161d-43a6-b9c3-555944290a09", "vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18365", "type": "seen", "source": "https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/github_enterprise_secret.rb", "content": "", "creation_timestamp": "2018-05-29T15:50:33.000000Z"}, {"uuid": "4462c431-ebf1-4394-ade5-e534e8867c38", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "9f56dd64-161d-43a6-b9c3-555944290a09", "vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18365", "type": "seen", "source": "https://t.me/cibsecurity/3401", "content": "ATENTION\u203c New - CVE-2017-18365\n\nThe Management Console in GitHub Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.7 has a deserialization issue that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This occurs because the enterprise session secret is always the same, and can be found in the product's source code. By sending a crafted cookie signed with this secret, one can call Marshal.load with arbitrary data, which is a problem because the Marshal data format allows Ruby objects.\n\n\ud83d\udcd6 Read\n\nvia \"National Vulnerability Database\".", "creation_timestamp": "2019-03-28T12:13:18.000000Z"}, {"uuid": "f7b5e529-0766-4b16-88b7-1c11cf353322", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "9f56dd64-161d-43a6-b9c3-555944290a09", "vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18365", "type": "seen", "source": "https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/github_enterprise_secret.rb", "content": "{\"aliases\": [], \"arch\": \"\", \"author\": [\"iblue \", \"sinn3r \"], \"autofilter_ports\": [80, 8080, 443, 8000, 8888, 8880, 8008, 3000, 8443], \"autofilter_services\": [\"http\", \"https\"], \"check\": true, \"default_credential\": false, \"description\": \"This module exploits two security issues in Github Enterprise, version 2.8.0 - 2.8.6.\\n          The first is that the session management uses a hard-coded secret value, which can be\\n          abused to sign a serialized malicious Ruby object. The second problem is due to the\\n          use of unsafe deserialization, which allows the malicious Ruby object to be loaded,\\n          and results in arbitrary remote code execution.\\n\\n          This exploit was tested against version 2.8.0.\", \"disclosure_date\": \"2017-03-15\", \"fullname\": \"exploit/linux/http/github_enterprise_secret\", \"is_install_path\": true, \"mod_time\": \"2026-04-22 11:54:55 +0000\", \"name\": \"Github Enterprise Default Session Secret And Deserialization Vulnerability\", \"needs_cleanup\": true, \"notes\": {\"Reliability\": [\"unknown-reliability\"], \"SideEffects\": [\"unknown-side-effects\"], \"Stability\": [\"unknown-stability\"]}, \"path\": \"/modules/exploits/linux/http/github_enterprise_secret.rb\", \"platform\": \"Linux\", \"post_auth\": false, \"rank\": 600, \"ref_name\": \"linux/http/github_enterprise_secret\", \"references\": [\"CVE-2017-18365\", \"EDB-41616\", \"URL-http://exablue.de/blog/2017-03-15-github-enterprise-remote-code-execution.html\", \"URL-https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.8.7/notes\"], \"rport\": 8443, \"session_types\": false, \"targets\": [\"Github Enterprise 2.8\"], \"type\": \"exploit\"}", "creation_timestamp": "2026-09-08T06:48:35.910084Z"}]}