CVE-2024-5795 Denial of Service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed resource exhaustion

What is CVE-2024-5795?

CVE-2024-5795 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Github Enterprise Server, published on 16 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Denial of Service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker to cause unbounded resource exhaustion by sending a large payload to the Git server. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.14 and was fixed in version 3.13.1, 3.12.6, 3.11.12, 3.10.14, and 3.9.17. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5795?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Github Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5795?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5795 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-5795 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5795 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2021-22869 Improper access control in GitHub Enterprise Server allows self-hosted runners to execute outside their control group Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-9487 Auth bypass in Enterprise Server Critical 9.5

All Github Enterprise Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jwvr-83h7-5ch5.