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CVE-2023-6804: Improper Privilege Management allows for arbitrary workflows to be run

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-12-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

• GitHub Enterprise Server: from 3.8.0 before 3.8.12; from 3.9.0 before 3.9.7; from 3.10.0 before 3.10.4; 3.11.0 — fixed in 3.10.4, 3.8.12, 3.9.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10.4, 3.8.12, 3.9.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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
• 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
• 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

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