Upstream information

CVE-2026-48501 at MITRE

Description

GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub's official command line tool. Prior to 2.93.0, GitHub CLI incorrectly includes authorization header in API requests to TUF repository mirrors via gh attestation, gh release verify, and gh release verify-asset commands. The CLI uses a shared HTTP client with an authentication layer that automatically attaches tokens to outgoing requests. This layer lacks accurate host detection and can incorrectly attribute the target host, providing it with a token it should never receive. Specifically, the host normalization logic collapses any *.github.com subdomain to github.com, so a request to tuf-repo.github.com (a GitHub Pages site, not a GitHub API endpoint) is treated as a request to github.com and receives the user's github.com token. For hosts that don't match github.com or a known GHES instance at all, the resolver falls back to GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN if set. The gh attestation, gh release verify and gh release verify-asset commands fetch data from several external hosts as part of their normal operation (TUF metadata from tuf-repo.github.com and tuf-repo-cdn.sigstore.dev, artifact bundles from Azure Blob Storage). Because these requests go through the same authenticated HTTP client, the token is sent to all of them. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.93.0.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.4 9.1
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity High Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact None None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1266975 [NEW]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri May 29 20:15:31 2026
CVE page last modified: Mon Jun 29 11:39:12 2026