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CVE-2024-5566: Improper Privilege Management allows for access to unauthorized repository content during migration

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

An improper privilege management vulnerability allowed users to migrate private repositories without having appropriate scopes defined on the related Personal Access Token. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.14 and was fixed in version 3.13.1, 3.12.6, 3.11.12, 3.10.14, and 3.9.17.

Affected products

• GitHub Enterprise Server: from 3.9.0 before 3.9.17; from 3.10.0 before 3.10.14; from 3.11.0 before 3.11.12; from 3.12.0 before 3.12.6; 3.13.0 — fixed in 3.10.14, 3.11.12, 3.12.6, 3.9.17

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10.14, 3.11.12, 3.12.6, 3.9.17. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.10/admin/release-notes#3.10.14
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.11/admin/release-notes#3.11.10
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.12/admin/release-notes#3.12.6
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.13/admin/release-notes#3.13.1
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.9/admin/release-notes#3.9.17
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.10/admin/release-notes#3.10.14
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.11/admin/release-notes#3.11.10
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.12/admin/release-notes#3.12.6
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.13/admin/release-notes#3.13.1
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.9/admin/release-notes#3.9.17

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