CVE-2024-5566Improper Privilege Management allows for access to unauthorized repository content during migration
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.48%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An improper privilege management vulnerability allowed users to migrate private repositories without having appropriate scopes defined on the related Personal Access Token. 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_P
- 46 days later
· 46 days later
Published
- 16 days later
· 16 days 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 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% 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 5.8.
Affected products
GitHub · GitHub Enterprise Server
- affected 3.9.0 – ≤ 3.9.16
- affected 3.10.0 – ≤ 3.10.13
- affected 3.11.0 – ≤ 3.11.11
- affected 3.12.0 – ≤ 3.12.5
- affected 3.13 – ≤ 3.13.0
References
References5
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.9.17 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.10.14 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.11.10 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.12.6 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.13.1 (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-2024-46761 (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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