Upstream information

CVE-2024-53858 at MITRE

Description

The gh cli is GitHub's official command line tool. A security vulnerability has been identified in the GitHub CLI that could leak authentication tokens when cloning repositories containing `git` submodules hosted outside of GitHub.com and ghe.com. This vulnerability stems from several `gh` commands used to clone a repository with submodules from a non-GitHub host including `gh repo clone`, `gh repo fork`, and `gh pr checkout`. These GitHub CLI commands invoke git with instructions to retrieve authentication tokens using the `credential.helper` configuration variable for any host encountered. Prior to version `2.63.0`, hosts other than GitHub.com and ghe.com are treated as GitHub Enterprise Server hosts and have tokens sourced from the following environment variables before falling back to host-specific tokens stored within system-specific secured storage: 1. `GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN`, 2. `GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN` and 3. `GITHUB_TOKEN` when the `CODESPACES` environment variable is set. The result being `git` sending authentication tokens when cloning submodules. In version `2.63.0`, these GitHub CLI commands will limit the hosts for which `gh` acts as a credential helper to source authentication tokens. Additionally, `GITHUB_TOKEN` will only be used for GitHub.com and ghe.com. Users are advised to upgrade. Additionally users are advised to revoke authentication tokens used with the GitHub CLI and to review their personal security log and any relevant audit logs for actions associated with their account or enterprise

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 6.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container:latest
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/toolbox:latest
Image SL-Micro
Image SL-Micro-Base
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-qcow
Image SL-Micro-Default
Image SL-Micro-Default-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Default-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Default-qcow
Image SLE-Micro
Image SLE-Micro-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-GCE
Image SLE-Micro-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-GCE
  • less >= 633-3.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20241209T183251-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-14567

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Nov 28 00:00:31 2024
CVE page last modified: Sat May 9 11:31:25 2026