Resource exhaustion in GitHub Enterprise Server
CVE-2026-15007
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an authenticated user to cause service disruption by supplying a repository release notes configuration file containing deeply nested YAML. When release notes were generated, the configuration file was parsed without a nesting depth limit, causing excessive resource consumption that could render the instance unresponsive. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.22 and was fixed in versions 3.17.18, 3.18.12, 3.19.9, 3.20.5, and 3.21.3. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
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EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (49.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 49.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GitHub Enterprise Server — versions 3.17.0, 3.18.0, 3.19.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes (release-notes)
- docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.18/admin/release-notes (release-notes)
- docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/admin/release-notes (release-notes)
- docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.20/admin/release-notes (release-notes)
- docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.21/admin/release-notes (release-notes)