CVE-2012-2055

HIGH7.5

GitHub Enterprise before 20120304 does not properly restrict the use of a hash to provide values for a model's attributes, which allows remote attackers to set the public_key[user_id] value via a modified URL for the public-key update form, related to a "mass assignment" vulnerability

Published Apr 4, 2012

Modified 1 years ago

Details

GitHub Enterprise before 20120304 does not properly restrict the use of a hash to provide values for a model's attributes, which allows remote attackers to set the public_key[user_id] value via a modified URL for the public-key update form, related to a "mass assignment" vulnerability.

References

WEB

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to.html

WEB

http://lwn.net/Articles/488702/

WEB

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74812

WEB

https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerability-and-mitigation

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2055

CVSS Analysis