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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD10.0 Critical

CVE-2024-4985

An authentication bypass vulnerability was present in the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) when utilizing SAML single sign-on authentication with the optional encrypted assertions f

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Assigning organization
GitHub_P

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

GitHub Enterprise Server

Default version status: affected

  • 3.9.0 to ≤ 3.9.14affected
  • 3.10.0 to ≤ 3.10.11affected
  • 3.11.0 to ≤ 3.11.9affected
  • 3.12.0 to ≤ 3.12.3affected
  • 3.13.0unaffected

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