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GHSA-5pw9-f9r4-mv2r

GitHub Security Advisory

⚠ Unreviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

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.

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-5pw9-f9r4-mv2r
Published
May 21, 2024 12:30 AM
Last Modified
August 27, 2025 9:31 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Unknown
Primary Package
Unknown
GitHub Reviewed
✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 13, 2025 6:30 AM

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