An incorrect authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed a user-to-server token scoped to a GitHub App installation to perform certain write operations on public repositories outside the token's intended scope. This was possible because the authorization check only verified that the installation had read permissions on the target repository rather than verifying that the token's installation was explicitly granted access to that repository. An attacker who obtained a victim's user-to-server token could create issues, issue comments, commit comments, and private vulnerability reports on any public repository, appearing as the victim user with no indication of the app involvement. This vulnerability was fixed by adding a repository scope check for user-to-server tokens issued by global apps. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.22 and was fixed in versions 3.21.2, 3.20.4, 3.19.8, 3.18.11, 3.17.17, 3.16.20. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · githubNVD modified 2026-10-25 16:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 6
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.16.20 Product, Release Notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.17.17 Product, Release Notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.18.11 Product, Release Notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.19.8 Product, Release Notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.20.4 Product, Release Notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.21.2 Product, Release Notes