CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-14340

MediumCVSS 5.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

An incorrect authorization vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed a user-to-server token scoped to a GitHub App installation to perform write operations on public repositories outside its intended scope. An attacker with a stolen token could create issues, comments, and private vulnerability reports, impersonating the victim without app involvement.

Risk Assessment

The risk is unauthorized modification of public repositories by an attacker, potentially leading to data integrity breaches, malicious code injection, or information leaks, with no trace of app involvement.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade GitHub Enterprise Server to versions 3.21.2, 3.20.4, 3.19.8, 3.18.11, 3.17.17, or 3.16.20, depending on your branch, to remediate the vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An incorrect authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed a user-to-server token scoped to a GitHub App installation to perform certain write operations on public repositories outside the token's intended scope. This was possible because the authorization check only verified that the installation had read permissions on the target repository rather than verifying that the token's installation was explicitly granted access to that repository. An attacker who obtained a victim's user-to-server token could create issues, issue comments, commit comments, and private vulnerability reports on any public repository, appearing as the victim user with no indication of the app involvement. This vulnerability was fixed by adding a repository scope check for user-to-server tokens issued by global apps. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.22 and was fixed in versions 3.21.2, 3.20.4, 3.19.8, 3.18.11, 3.17.17, 3.16.20. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS