Denial of service vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed unauthenticated service disruption via deeply nested request parameters
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.6epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 67% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption and exhaust the pool of request-handling worker processes by sending a crafted form-encoded HTTP POST request containing deeply nested parameters. Because request parameters were parsed before routing and authentication, any POST endpoint could be used to trigger the condition, which could render the instance unresponsive. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.20.3, 3.19.7, 3.18.10, and 3.17.16.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Affected products
GitHub · Enterprise ServerReferences
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes#3.17.16https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.18/admin/release-notes#3.18.10https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/admin/release-notes#3.19.7https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.20/admin/release-notes#3.20.3