GitHub Enterprise Server up to 3.8.0 Secret Gist improper authentication

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A vulnerability was found in GitHub Enterprise Server up to 3.4.17/3.5.14/3.6.10/3.7.7/3.8.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Secret Gist Handler. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-23761. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in GitHub Enterprise Server up to 3.4.17/3.5.14/3.6.10/3.7.7/3.8.0 (Bug Tracking Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Secret Gist Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An improper authentication vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthorized actor to modify other users' secret gists by authenticating through an SSH certificate authority. To do so, a user had to know the secret gist’s URL. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.9 and was fixed in versions 3.4.18, 3.5.15, 3.6.11, 3.7.8, and 3.8.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

The weakness was presented 04/07/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at docs.github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-23761 since 01/17/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 3.4.18, 3.5.15, 3.6.11, 3.7.8, 3.8.1 or 3.9.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Bug Tracking Software

Vendor

• GitHub

Name

• Enterprise Server

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.4.0
• 3.4.1
• 3.4.2
• 3.4.3
• 3.4.4
• 3.4.5
• 3.4.6
• 3.4.7
• 3.4.8
• 3.4.9
• 3.4.10
• 3.4.11
• 3.4.12
• 3.4.13
• 3.4.14
• 3.4.15
• 3.4.16
• 3.4.17
• 3.5
• 3.5.0
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.5
• 3.5.6
• 3.5.7
• 3.5.8
• 3.5.9
• 3.5.10
• 3.5.11
• 3.5.12
• 3.5.13
• 3.5.14
• 3.6
• 3.6.0
• 3.6.1
• 3.6.2
• 3.6.3
• 3.6.4
• 3.6.5
• 3.6.6
• 3.6.7
• 3.6.8
• 3.6.9
• 3.6.10
• 3.7
• 3.7.0
• 3.7.1
• 3.7.2
• 3.7.3
• 3.7.4
• 3.7.5
• 3.7.6
• 3.7.7
• 3.8.0

License

• open-source

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