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CVE-2021-41598 Detail

Description

A UI misrepresentation vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed more permissions to be granted during a GitHub App's user-authorization web flow than was displayed to the user during approval. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to create a GitHub App on the instance and have a user authorize the application through the web authentication flow. All permissions being granted would properly be shown during the first authorization, but if the user later updated the set of repositories the app was installed on after the GitHub App had configured additional user-level permissions, those additional permissions would not be displayed, leading to more permissions being granted than the user potentially intended. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.3 and was fixed in versions 3.2.5, 3.1.13, 3.0.21. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.0/admin/release-notes#3.0.21
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.0/admin/release-notes#3.0.21
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.1/admin/release-notes#3.1.13
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.1/admin/release-notes#3.1.13
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.2/admin/release-notes#3.2.5
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server%403.2/admin/release-notes#3.2.5

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-451 User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-41598
NVD Published Date:
01/25/2022
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
GitHub, Inc. (Products Only)