CVE-2026-7541
Denial of service vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed service disruption via unauthenticated API endpoint
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- GitHub_P
Description
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause service disruption by sending crafted requests with deeply nested JSON payloads to an unauthenticated API endpoint. The endpoint parsed user-controlled JSON request bodies without size or depth limits, causing excessive CPU and memory consumption. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.20.2, 3.19.6, 3.18.9, 3.17.15, and 3.16.18. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_PCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/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:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (6 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: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 3.16.0 – ≤ 3.16.17
- affected 3.17.0 – ≤ 3.17.14
- affected 3.18.0 – ≤ 3.18.8
- affected 3.19.0 – ≤ 3.19.5
- affected 3.20.0 – ≤ 3.20.1
References (5)
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.16.18 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.17.15 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.18.9 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.19.6 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.20.2 (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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