CVE-2026-7541

EUVD-2026-28462
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause service disruption by sending crafted requests with deeply nested JSON payloads to an unauthenticated API endpoint. The endpoint parsed user-controlled JSON request bodies without size or depth limits, causing excessive CPU and memory consumption. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.20.2, 3.19.6, 3.18.9, 3.17.15, and 3.16.18. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
GitHub_PCNA
7.5 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 28%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
githubenterprise_server
𝑥
< 3.16.18
githubenterprise_server
3.17.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.17.15
githubenterprise_server
3.18.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.18.9
githubenterprise_server
3.19.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.19.6
githubenterprise_server
3.20.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.20.2
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
githubgithub
3.16.0 ≤
𝑥
≤ 3.16.17
CNA
githubgithub
3.17.0 ≤
𝑥
≤ 3.17.14
CNA
githubgithub
3.18.0 ≤
𝑥
≤ 3.18.8
CNA
githubgithub
3.19.0 ≤
𝑥
≤ 3.19.5
CNA
githubgithub
3.20.0 ≤
𝑥
≤ 3.20.1
CNA