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CVE-2026-5921 Detail

Description

A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker to extract sensitive environment variables from the instance through a timing side-channel attack against the notebook rendering service. When private mode was disabled, the notebook viewer followed HTTP redirects without revalidating the destination host, enabling an unauthenticated SSRF to internal services. By chaining this with regex filter queries against an internal API and measuring response time differences, an attacker could infer secret values character by character. Exploitation required that private mode be disabled and that the attacker be able to chain the instance's open redirect endpoint through an external redirect to reach internal services. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.14.26, 3.15.21, 3.16.17, 3.17.14, 3.18.8, 3.19.5, and 3.20.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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CNA:  GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)
CVSS-BT 8.9 HIGH
Vector:  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:P

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.14.26 GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)
https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.15.21 GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)
https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.16.17 GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)
https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.17.14 GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)
https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.18.8 GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)
https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.19.5 GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)
https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.20.1 GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-5921
NVD Published Date:
04/21/2026
NVD Last Modified:
04/21/2026
Source:
GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)