Secret-gist modification via SSH certificate authentication
Published Apr 7, 2023 · Updated Feb 7, 2025
Improper authentication in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote authenticated users to modify other users' secret gists through SSH. The SSH certificate authority path accepts an unauthorized actor as a valid user for secret-gist writes, but GitHub has not published the faulty validation step. Exploitation requires a configured SSH certificate authority and knowledge of the target secret gist URL.
Summary
What happened
Improper authentication in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote authenticated users to modify other users' secret gists through SSH. The SSH certificate authority path accepts an unauthorized actor as a valid user for secret-gist writes, but GitHub has not published the faulty validation step. Exploitation requires a configured SSH certificate authority and knowledge of the target secret gist URL.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-23761
- Published
- Apr 7, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 7, 2025
- Vendor
- Product
- GitHub Enterprise Server
- Classifications
- CWE-287, CAPEC-114, T1078
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 7, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 7, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=3.4.0 <=3.4.17 changes=[{"at":"3.4.18","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=3.5.0 <=3.5.14 changes=[{"at":"3.5.15","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=3.6.0 <=3.6.10 changes=[{"at":"3.6.11","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=3.7.0 <=3.7.7 changes=[{"at":"3.7.8","status":"unaffected"}]
- Affected versionversion=3.8.0 <3.8.1 changes=[{"at":"3.8.1","status":"unaffected"}]
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