Remote code execution via Memcached data deserialization
Published Oct 19, 2022 · Updated May 9, 2025
Unsafe deserialization in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote attackers to execute code on the Subversion bridge through crafted cache data. An SSRF path can inject arbitrary attacker-controlled data into Memcached, which the SVN bridge deserializes without establishing its trustworthiness. Exploitation requires an SSRF primitive that reaches the cache, and successful execution runs in the server-side SVN bridge context.
Summary
What happened
Unsafe deserialization in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote attackers to execute code on the Subversion bridge through crafted cache data. An SSRF path can inject arbitrary attacker-controlled data into Memcached, which the SVN bridge deserializes without establishing its trustworthiness. Exploitation requires an SSRF primitive that reaches the cache, and successful execution runs in the server-side SVN bridge context.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-23734
- Published
- Oct 19, 2022
- Updated
- May 9, 2025
- Vendor
- Product
- GitHub Enterprise Server
- Classifications
- CWE-502, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
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- Oct 19, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 9, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=3.2 <3.2.16
- Affected versionversion=3.3 <3.3.11
- Affected versionversion=3.4 <3.4.6
- Affected versionversion=3.5 <3.5.3
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