An authentication bypass vulnerability was present in the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) when utilizing SAML single sign-on authentication with the optional encrypted assertions feature. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to forge a SAML response to provision and/or gain access to a user with site administrator privileges. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow unauthorized access to the instance without requiring prior authentication. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.13.0 and was fixed in versions 3.9.15, 3.10.12, 3.11.10 and 3.12.4. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_P

Published: 2024-05-20T21:17:27.315Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.505Z

Reserved: 2024-05-16T03:36:45.225Z

Link: CVE-2024-4985

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.505Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-20T22:15:08.727

Modified: 2024-05-21T12:37:59.687

Link: CVE-2024-4985

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