CVE-2021-22866CWE-451

UI misrepresentation of granted permissions in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to unauthorized access to user resources

published May 14, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
63.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 in certain circumstances, if the user revisits the authorization flow after the GitHub App has configured additional user-level permissions, those additional permissions may not be shown, leading to more permissions being granted than the user potentially intended. This vulnerability affected GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0.x prior to 3.0.7 and 2.22.x prior to 2.22.13. It was fixed in versions 3.0.7 and 2.22.13. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01045 · 63.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-451 · User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information
Published
2021-05-14T21:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 MAY 21:10Z
    UI misrepresentation of granted permissions in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to unauthorized access to user resources
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