CVE-2025-6981

medium

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

References

https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.17.3

https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.16.6

https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.15.10

https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.14.15

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-15

Updated: 2025-07-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base 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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00039