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GitHub Enterprise Hardcoded Secret

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/15/2017
Created
02/03/2021
Added
02/03/2021
Modified
02/03/2021

Description

Github Enterprise versions 2.8.0 - 2.8.6 contains a vulnerability in the session management where a hard-coded secret was used. This could be abused to sign serialised objects and combined with another vulnerability in unsafe deserialisation it could lead to remote code execution.

This check requires the Metasploit Remote Check Service to be enabled on Scan Engines. Please see the Metasploit Remote Check Service documentation for instructions on how to enable this functionality.

Solution(s)

  • github-enterprise-update-latest

References

  • exploit/linux/http/github_enterprise_secret

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