High severity · published Apr 21, 2026
CVE-2026-5921
Server-Side Request Forgery in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed extraction of sensitive environment variables via timing side-channel attack
8.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker to extract sensitive environment variables from the instance through a timing side-channel attack against the notebook rendering service. When private mode was disabled, the notebook viewer followed HTTP redirects without revalidating the destination host, enabling an unauthenticated SSRF to internal services. By chaining this with regex filter queries against an internal API and measuring response time differences, an attacker could infer secret values character by character. Exploitation required that private mode be disabled and that the attacker be able to chain the instance's open redirect endpoint through an external redirect to reach internal services. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.21 and was fixed in versions 3.14.26, 3.15.21, 3.16.17, 3.17.14, 3.18.8, 3.19.5, and 3.20.1. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Enterprise Server · GitHub
3.14.0 before 3.14.26; 3.15.0 before 3.15.21; 3.16.0 before 3.16.17; 3.17.0 before 3.17.14; 3.18.0 before 3.18.8; 3.19.0 before 3.19.5; +1 more · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5921
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5921
Release Notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.14/admin/release-notes#3.14.26
Release Notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.15/admin/release-notes#3.15.21
Release Notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.16/admin/release-notes#3.16.17
Release Notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes#3.17.14
Release Notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.18/admin/release-notes#3.18.8
Release Notes
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/admin/release-notes#3.19.5
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