CVE-2021-22869

CRITICAL

GitHub Enterprise Server - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An improper access control vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed a workflow job to execute in a self-hosted runner group it should not have had access to. This affects customers using self-hosted runner groups for access control. A repository with access to one enterprise runner group could access all of the enterprise runner groups within the organization because of improper authentication checks during the request. This could cause code to be run unintentionally by the incorrect runner group. This vulnerability affected GitHub Enterprise Server versions from 3.0.0 to 3.0.15 and 3.1.0 to 3.1.7 and was fixed in 3.0.16 and 3.1.8 releases.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 60.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-287 CWE-668
Status published

Affected Products (1)

github/enterprise_server < 3.0.16

Timeline

Published Sep 24, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026