CVE-2025-11578
Essential information
- Published
- 10/11/2025 23:15
- Modified
- 08/12/2025 18:22
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3) 7.5 HIGH (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS metrics
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Scope
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Exploit code maturity
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- HIGH
- Attack requirements
- PRESENT
- Privileges required
- HIGH
- User interaction
- NONE
- Confidentiality (V)
- HIGH
- Confidentiality (S)
- NONE
- Integrity (V)
- HIGH
- Integrity (S)
- NONE
- Availability (V)
- HIGH
- Availability (S)
- NONE
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an authenticated Enterprise admin to gain root SSH access to the appliance by exploiting a symlink escape in pre-receive hook environments. By crafting a malicious repository and environment, an attacker could replace system binaries during hook cleanup and execute a payload that adds their own SSH key to the root user’s authorized keys—thereby granting themselves root SSH access to the server. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needed to have enterprise admin privileges. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.19, and was fixed in versions 3.14.20, 3.15.15, 3.16.11, 3.17.8, 3.18.2. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
NVD status
- Status
- Analyzed — CVE has had analysis completed and all data associations made.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| github / enterprise server | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| github / enterprise server | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| github / enterprise server | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| github / enterprise server | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| github / enterprise server | cpe:2.3:a:github:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |