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Authentication bypass on gist.github.com through SSH Certificates

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GitHub
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Team Summary

Official summary from GitHub

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.

Reported by ammar2

Report Details

Additional information and metadata

State

Closed

Substate

Resolved

Bounty

$10000.00

Submitted

Weakness

Improper Access Control - Generic