CVE-2024-4985 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) when using SAML single sign-on with encrypted assertions. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge SAML responses, gaining site administrator privileges and unauthorized access to the GHES instance. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), it presents a high risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not yet in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code has been publicly shared, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating a high potential for exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.9.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.10.0, < 3.10.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.11.0, < 3.11.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.12.0, < 3.12.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.10.0, <= 3.10.11CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.