An incorrect authorization vulnerability allowed unauthorized read access to the contents of internal repositories for contractor accounts when the Contractors API feature was enabled. The Contractors API is a rarely-enabled feature in private preview. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.18 and was fixed in versions 3.14.15, 3.15.10, 3.16.6 and 3.17.3
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00039}


Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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Description An incorrect authorization vulnerability allowed unauthorized read access to the contents of internal repositories for contractor accounts when the Contractors API feature was enabled. The Contractors API is a rarely-enabled feature in private preview. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.18 and was fixed in versions 3.14.15, 3.15.10, 3.16.6 and 3.17.3
Title Incorrect authorization vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed unauthorized read-only access
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_P

Published: 2025-07-15T20:44:30.022Z

Updated: 2025-07-16T19:04:18.464Z

Reserved: 2025-07-01T18:28:24.614Z

Link: CVE-2025-6981

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-16T19:04:13.924Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-15T21:15:34.630

Modified: 2025-07-16T14:58:59.837

Link: CVE-2025-6981

cve-icon Redhat

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