National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2055

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: MISC

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

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