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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-15996

CVE-2026-15996

Medium
Open
TLP:CLEAR

Denial of service vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed unauthenticated service disruption via deeply nested request parameters

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Description

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption and exhaust the pool of request-handling worker processes by sending a crafted form-encoded HTTP POST request containing deeply nested parameters. Because request parameters were parsed before routing and authentication, any POST endpoint could be used to trigger the condition, which could render the instance unresponsive. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.20.3, 3.19.7, 3.18.10, and 3.17.16.

Details

CVSS Score
6.6
EPSS Score
0.40%

33.3th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 5, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 6, 2026
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