CVE-2026-8606 PUBLISHED

Server-Side Request Forgery in GitHub Enterprise Server via Advisory Package URL Endpoint

Assigner: GitHub_P
Reserved: 14.05.2026 Published: 26.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker to cause the server to issue HTTP requests to internal services via the security advisories package lookup feature. By directing requests to an internal management service and measuring response timing, an attacker could infer the values of sensitive environment variables, including signing secrets and private keys. Exploitation required GitHub Packages to be enabled; on instances not running in private mode the vulnerability was exploitable without authentication, otherwise any authenticated user could exploit it. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21.1 and was fixed in versions 3.20.3, 3.19.7, 3.18.10, 3.17.16, and 3.16.19. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7

Product Status

Vendor GitHub
Product Enterprise Server
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.21.0 to 3.21.1 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.20.0 to 3.20.2 (incl.)
  • affected from 3.19.0 to 3.19.6 (incl.)
  • affected from 3.18.0 to 3.18.9 (incl.)
  • affected from 3.17.0 to 3.17.15 (incl.)
  • affected from 3.16.0 to 3.16.18 (incl.)

Credits

  • R31n finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-918 Server-Side request forgery (SSRF) CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
  • CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup