CVE-2026-64652

low

Description

GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub's official command line tool. Prior to version 2.97.0, gh auth status masked only the characters after the last underscore in certain fine-grained personal access tokens and GitHub App tokens. As a result, part of an affected token could appear in terminal or CI output that is captured or shared. Authenticated users are affected if they ran gh auth status (without the --show-token flag) with a token type whose format contains an underscore after the prefix. This includes fine-grained personal access tokens (github_pat_*) and GitHub App installation and user access tokens (ghs_*, ghu_*; for example, ghs_<APPID>_<JWT>), as well as the Actions GITHUB_TOKEN. Classic tokens such as gho_* and ghp_* have an underscore-free body and are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 2.97.0.

References

https://github.com/cli/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-cg6r-mpgc-h9mm

https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.97.0

https://github.com/cli/cli/commit/3f6a16a9f8c7fe9676aa8d8f47b399310dd231c3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-06

Updated: 2026-08-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00117