CVE-2026-7541
HIGHDescription
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.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 31% of all known CVEs.
References
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.16.18
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.17.15
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.18.9
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.19.6
- https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/release-notes#3.20.2
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Start freeThis product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-05-11.