CVE-2012-2055: GitHub

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GitHub GitHub: before 20120304 (fixed in 20120304)

Published 2012-04-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.