⚠ Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Tracker

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability was present in the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) when utilizing SAML single sign-on authentication with the optional encrypted assertions feature. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to forge a SAML response to provision and/or gain access to a user with site administrator privileges. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow unauthorized access to the instance without requiring prior authentication. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.13.0 and was fixed in versions 3.9.15, 3.10.12, 3.11.10 and 3.12.4. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.

Lifecycle Timeline

• 2024-05-20
  CVE published

  Entered the public CVE record.

  CVE.org →
• 2024-05-22
  First national advisory 2 days later

  CERT-EU — 2024-047: Critical Vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server

  CyberzSOC advisory index →
• not recorded
  Public exploit code

  No dated exploit found in Metasploit, Exploit-DB or public GitHub repositories.
• not recorded
  EPSS flags exploitation risk

  Tracked, and has never reached 10% (peak 4.7%).
• not recorded
  Added to CISA KEV

  Not in the CISA KEV catalog.
• not recorded
  Federal remediation due

  No remediation deadline set.
• not recorded
  Vendor fix published

  No dated vendor fix. Only Microsoft publishes a machine-readable release date; other vendors state a fixed version without one.

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 134 points from 2024-05-25, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 4.7% on 2025-03-29.

Published Applicability

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Blind spot. No public detection — verify by version/patch. Nothing in the monitored scanner, IDS, SIEM or offensive-tool collections references this CVE, so exposure has to be established from asset inventory and patch level rather than from a signature.

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-303) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

Listed By

Referenced in Advisories

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References

CVE.org record → NVD entry → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →