CVE-2024-9487
An Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed SAML SSO authentication to be bypassed when the encrypted assertions feature was enabled
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- GitHub_P
Description
An improper verification of cryptographic signature vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed SAML SSO authentication to be bypassed resulting in unauthorized provisioning of users and access to the instance. Exploitation required the encrypted assertions feature to be enabled, and the attacker would require direct network access as well as a signed SAML response or metadata document. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.15 and was fixed in versions 3.11.16, 3.12.10, 3.13.5, and 3.14.2. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_PCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Critical9.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Red |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Critical9.5 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Red |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 25.6% · top 2.0% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 3.11.0 – ≤ 3.11.15
- affected 3.12.0 – ≤ 3.12.9
- affected 3.13.0 – ≤ 3.13.4
- affected 3.14.0 – ≤ 3.14.1
References (4)
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.11.16 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.12.10 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.13.5 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.14.2 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
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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