CVE-2023-6690 (GCVE-0-2023-6690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-21 20:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:35
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Summary
A race condition in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed an existing admin to maintain permissions on transferred repositories by making a GraphQL mutation to alter repository permissions during the transfer. This vulnerability affected GitHub Enterprise Server version 3.8.0 and above and was fixed in version 3.8.12, 3.9.7, 3.10.4, and 3.11.1.
Severity
3.9 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitHub Enterprise Server Affected: 3.8 , ≤ 3.8.11 (semver)
Affected: 3.9 , ≤ 3.9.6 (semver)
Affected: 3.10 , ≤ 3.10.3 (semver)
Affected: 3.11 , ≤ 3.11.0 (semver)
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.