cve-2022-23737
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-01 00:00
Modified
2025-04-24 14:32
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
An improper privilege management vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed users with improper privileges to create or delete pages via the API. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to be added to an organization's repo with write permissions. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.7 and was fixed in versions 3.2.20, 3.3.15, 3.4.10, 3.5.7, and 3.6.3. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
References
product-cna@github.comhttps://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.2/admin/release-notes#3.2.20
product-cna@github.comhttps://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.3/admin/release-notes#3.3.15
product-cna@github.comhttps://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.4/admin/release-notes#3.4.10
product-cna@github.comhttps://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.5/admin/release-notes#3.5.7
product-cna@github.comhttps://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.6/admin/release-notes#3.6.3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.2/admin/release-notes#3.2.20
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.3/admin/release-notes#3.3.15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.4/admin/release-notes#3.4.10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.5/admin/release-notes#3.5.7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.6/admin/release-notes#3.6.3
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitHub GitHub Enterprise Server Version: 3.2   < 3.2.20
Version: 3.3   < 3.3.15
Version: 3.4   < 3.4.10
Version: 3.5   < 3.5.7
Version: 3.6   < 3.6.3
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