CVE-2023-23761 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-23761

Improper authentication vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to modification of secret gists

Vulnerability Description

An improper authentication vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthorized actor to modify other users' secret gists by authenticating through an SSH certificate authority. To do so, a user had to know the secret gist's URL. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.9 and was fixed in versions 3.4.18, 3.5.15, 3.6.11, 3.7.8, and 3.8.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Enterprise Server
Vulnerable Versions:
3.4.0, 3.5.0, 3.6.0, 3.7.0, 3.8.0, 3.9.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 7th, 2023
Last Modified: February 7th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)