CVE-2024-5795
Denial of Service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed resource exhaustion
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- GitHub_P
Description
A Denial of Service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker to cause unbounded resource exhaustion by sending a large payload to the Git server. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.14 and was fixed in version 3.13.1, 3.12.6, 3.11.12, 3.10.14, and 3.9.17. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_P
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_PCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.56% · top 53% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Weakness
Affected products
GitHub · GitHub Enterprise Server
- affected 3.9.0 – ≤ 3.9.16
- affected 3.10.0 – ≤ 3.10.13
- affected 3.11.0 – ≤ 3.11.11
- affected 3.12.0 – ≤ 3.12.5
- affected 3.13 – ≤ 3.13.0
References (5)
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.9.17 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.10.14 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.11.12 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.12.6 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.13.1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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