CVE-2021-41598

HIGH

GitHub Enterprise Server - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A UI misrepresentation vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed more permissions to be granted during a GitHub App's user-authorization web flow than was displayed to the user during approval. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to create a GitHub App on the instance and have a user authorize the application through the web authentication flow. All permissions being granted would properly be shown during the first authorization, but if the user later updated the set of repositories the app was installed on after the GitHub App had configured additional user-level permissions, those additional permissions would not be displayed, leading to more permissions being granted than the user potentially intended. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.3 and was fixed in versions 3.2.5, 3.1.13, 3.0.21. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-451
Status published
Products (1)
github/enterprise_server < 3.0.21
Published Jan 25, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026