An improper access control vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed users with access to any repository to retrieve limited code content from another repository by creating a diff between the repositories. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker needed to know the name of a private repository along with its branches, tags, or commit SHAs that they could use to trigger compare/diff functionality and retrieve limited code without proper authorization. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.18, and was fixed in versions 3.14.17, 3.15.12, 3.16.8 and 3.17.5. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
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First Time appeared Github
Github enterprise Server
Vendors & Products Github
Github enterprise Server

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Description An improper access control vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed users with access to any repository to retrieve limited code content from another repository by creating a diff between the repositories. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker needed to know the name of a private repository along with its branches, tags, or commit SHAs that they could use to trigger compare/diff functionality and retrieve limited code without proper authorization. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.18, and was fixed in versions 3.14.17, 3.15.12, 3.16.8 and 3.17.5. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Title Incorrect authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed read-only access
Weaknesses CWE-639
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_P

Published: 2025-08-26T01:42:37.424Z

Updated: 2025-08-26T18:34:59.232Z

Reserved: 2025-07-31T20:15:16.466Z

Link: CVE-2025-8447

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-26T02:15:36.270

Modified: 2025-08-26T13:41:58.950

Link: CVE-2025-8447

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