CVE-2024-4985 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2024-4985

An authentication bypass vulnerability was present in the GitHub Enterprise...

Vulnerability Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability was present in the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) when utilizing SAML single sign-on authentication with the optional encrypted assertions feature. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to forge a SAML response to provision and/or gain access to a user with site administrator privileges. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow unauthorized access to the instance without requiring prior authentication. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.13.0 and was fixed in versions 3.9.15, 3.10.12, 3.11.10 and 3.12.4. 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

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Imre Rad

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Enterprise Server
Vulnerable Versions:
3.9.0, 3.10.0, 3.11.0, 3.12.0, 3.13.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2024
Last Modified: August 1st, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.