CVE-2017-18365
CRITICAL EXPLOITEDGithub < 2.8.7 - Insecure Deserialization
Title source: ruleDescription
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