CVE-2023-6690A race condition in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed an existing admin to maintain permissions on transferred repositories by making a…
- 3.9LowCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A race condition in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed an existing admin to maintain permissions on transferred repositories by making a GraphQL mutation to alter repository permissions during the transfer. This vulnerability affected GitHub Enterprise Server version 3.8.0 and above and was fixed in version 3.8.12, 3.9.7, 3.10.4, and 3.11.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_P
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_PCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.9.
Affected products
- affected 3.8 – ≤ 3.8.11
- affected 3.9 – ≤ 3.9.6
- affected 3.10 – ≤ 3.10.3
- affected 3.11 – ≤ 3.11.0
References
References4
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.8.12 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.9.7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.10.4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.11.1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-58911 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-6690)Record last updated .