CVE-2021-22866 (GCVE-0-2021-22866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-14 21:10 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:51
VLAI
Title
UI misrepresentation of granted permissions in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to unauthorized access to user resources
Summary
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 in certain circumstances, if the user revisits the authorization flow after the GitHub App has configured additional user-level permissions, those additional permissions may not be shown, leading to more permissions being granted than the user potentially intended. This vulnerability affected GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0.x prior to 3.0.7 and 2.22.x prior to 2.22.13. It was fixed in versions 3.0.7 and 2.22.13. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-451 - User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information
Assigner
GitHub_P CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitHub GitHub Enterprise Server Affected: 3.0 , < 3.0.7 (custom)
Affected: 2.22 , < 2.22.13 (custom)
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Credits
Vaibhav Singh (vaib25vicky)
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