CVE-2021-41598
GitHub Enterprise Server GitHub App Permissions Misrepresentation
Description
A UI misrepresentation vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed more permissions to be granted during a GitHub App's user-authorization web flow than was displayed to the user during approval. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to create a GitHub App on the instance and have a user authorize the application through the web authentication flow. All permissions being granted would properly be shown during the first authorization, but if the user later updated the set of repositories the app was installed on after the GitHub App had configured additional user-level permissions, those additional permissions would not be displayed, leading to more permissions being granted than the user potentially intended. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.3 and was fixed in versions 3.2.5, 3.1.13, 3.0.21. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
INFO
Published Date :
Jan. 25, 2022, 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 6:26 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
2.8
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.0/admin/release-notes#3.0.21 Added Reference https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.1/admin/release-notes#3.1.13 Added Reference https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.2/admin/release-notes#3.2.5 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference GitHub, Inc. (Products Only) https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.0/admin/release-notes#3.0.21 [No types assigned] Added Reference GitHub, Inc. (Products Only) https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.1/admin/release-notes#3.1.13 [No types assigned] Added Reference GitHub, Inc. (Products Only) https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.2/admin/release-notes#3.2.5 [No types assigned] Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. (Products Only) https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.0.21 Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. (Products Only) https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.2.5 Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. (Products Only) https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.1.13 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Feb. 01, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.0.21 No Types Assigned https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.0.21 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.1.13 No Types Assigned https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.1.13 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.2.5 No Types Assigned https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.2.5 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory Added CWE NIST NVD-CWE-Other Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.0.21 *cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.1.0 up to (excluding) 3.1.13 *cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.2.0 up to (excluding) 3.2.5
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Exploit Prediction
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0.31 }} 0.03%
score
0.70590
percentile