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Description

An improper neutralization of special elements vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker with push access to a repository to achieve remote code execution on the instance. During a git push operation, user-supplied push option values were not properly sanitized before being included in internal service headers. Because the internal header format used a delimiter character that could also appear in user input, an attacker could inject additional metadata fields through crafted push option values. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program and has been fixed in GitHub Enterprise Server versions 3.14.24, 3.15.19, 3.16.15, 3.17.12, 3.18.6 and 3.19.3.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-09 | Published 2026-03-10 | Updated 2026-03-11 | Assigner GitHub_P




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Product status

Default status
affected

3.14.0 (semver)
affected

3.15.0 (semver)
affected

3.16.0 (semver)
affected

3.17.0 (semver)
affected

3.18.0 (semver)
affected

3.19.0 (semver)
affected

Credits

Sagi Tzadik @ Wiz.io finder

References

docs.github.com/...nterprise-server@3.14/admin/release-notes

docs.github.com/...nterprise-server@3.15/admin/release-notes

docs.github.com/...nterprise-server@3.16/admin/release-notes

docs.github.com/...nterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes

docs.github.com/...nterprise-server@3.18/admin/release-notes

docs.github.com/...nterprise-server@3.19/admin/release-notes

cve.org (CVE-2026-3854)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-3854)

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