CVE-2026-7541
HIGH SEVERITYCVSS Score & Metrics
Base Score
7.5 / 10
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Vulnerability Description
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause service disruption by sending crafted requests with deeply nested JSON payloads to an unauthenticated API endpoint. The endpoint parsed user-controlled JSON request bodies without size or depth limits, causing excessive CPU and memory consumption. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.20.2, 3.19.6, 3.18.9, 3.17.15, and 3.16.18. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Vulnerability Details
Published Date
Last Modified
CWE ID
CWE-770
Source
NVD
Vendor
github
Product
enterprise_server
External References
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.16/admin/release-notes#3.16.18
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes#3.17.15
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.18/admin/release-notes#3.18.9
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/admin/release-notes#3.19.6
- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.20/admin/release-notes#3.20.2
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