CVE-2025-6981

An incorrect authorization vulnerability allowed unauthorized read access to the contents of internal repositories for contractor accounts when the Contractors API feature was enabled. The Contractors API is a rarely-enabled feature in private preview. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.18 and was fixed in versions 3.14.15, 3.15.10, 3.16.6 and 3.17.3

Score

CVSS 4.0 5.3 Medium

Status

Analyzed - product-cna@github.com

Published

2025-07-15

Last modified

2025-07-16

Weaknesses

CWE-863

Affected products

• Enterprise Server (Github)

References

• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.14/admin/release-notes#3.14.15
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.15/admin/release-notes#3.15.10
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.16/admin/release-notes#3.16.6
• https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes#3.17.3