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Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to RCE

Published Dec 14, 2022

Description

An improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that enabled remote code execution. A check was added within Pages to ensure the working directory is clean before unpacking new content to prevent an arbitrary file overwrite bug. This vulnerability affected only version 3.7.0 of GitHub Enterprise Server and was fixed in version 3.7.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_P
Published Dec 14, 2022
Updated Apr 22, 2025
Reserved Nov 28, 2022
Link CVE-2022-46255

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Apr 22, 2025

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2022-46255

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner GitHub_P
Published Dec 14, 2022
Updated Apr 22, 2025
Link EUVD-2022-49074

GitHub

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