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Status published
Medium
CVE-2023-6804
Improper Privilege Management allows for arbitrary workflows to be run
Vulnerability Description
Improper privilege management allowed arbitrary workflows to be committed and run using an improperly scoped PAT. To exploit this, a workflow must have already existed in the target repo. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server since 3.8 and was fixed in version 3.8.12, 3.9.7, 3.10.4, and 3.11.1.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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References
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.8/admin/release-notes#3.8.12
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.9/admin/release-notes#3.9.7
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.10/admin/release-notes#3.10.4
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.11/admin/release-notes#3.11.1
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
Enterprise Server
Vulnerable Versions:
3.8.0, 3.9.0, 3.10.0, 3.11
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 21st, 2023
Last Modified:
November 27th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L