CVE-2017-18365

CRITICAL EXPLOITED

Github < 2.8.7 - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule

Description

The Management Console in GitHub Enterprise 2.8.x before 2.8.7 has a deserialization issue that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This occurs because the enterprise session secret is always the same, and can be found in the product's source code. By sending a crafted cookie signed with this secret, one can call Marshal.load with arbitrary data, which is a problem because the Marshal data format allows Ruby objects.

Exploits (1)

metasploit WORKING POC EXCELLENT
rubypoclinux
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/github_enterprise_secret.rb

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.4071
EPSS Percentile 97.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation Intel

VulnCheck KEV 2025-11-10

Classification

CWE
CWE-502
Status published

Affected Products (2)

github/github < 2.8.7
github/github

Timeline

Published Mar 28, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026