CVE-2024-2440Race Condition was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed maintaining admin permissions
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 60% 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 a detached repository by making a GraphQL mutation to alter repository permissions while the repository is detached. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.13 and was fixed in versions 3.9.13, 3.10.10, 3.11.8 and 3.12.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
Timeline
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By GitHub_P
- 37 days later
· 37 days later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 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 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 3.9 – ≤ 3.9.12
- affected 3.10 – ≤ 3.10.9
- affected 3.11 – ≤ 3.11.7
- affected 3.12 – ≤ 3.12.0
References
References4
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.9.13 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.10.10 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.11.8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.12.2 (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-2024-27390 (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-2024-2440)Record last updated .