SSRF and timing side-channel secret disclosure in GitHub Enterprise Server security advisories package lookup
CVE-2026-8606 is a server-side request forgery vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) affecting the security advisories package lookup feature. An attacker could cause the GHES instance to issue HTTP requests to internal services, including an internal management service, through the vulnerable package lookup path. By measuring response timing from those internal requests, the attacker could infer sensitive environment variable values exposed through the internal service, including signing secrets and private keys. The issue requires GitHub Packages to be enabled. On GHES instances not running in private mode, exploitation could be performed without authentication; on instances in private mode, any authenticated user could exploit it. The vulnerability affects GHES versions prior to 3.21.1 and was fixed in 3.20.3, 3.19.7, 3.18.10, 3.17.16, and 3.16.19.
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An unauthenticated SSRF vulnerability in a GHES internal packages endpoint when private mode is disabled, potentially enabling access to internal services.
A timing side-channel vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server that can allow extraction of sensitive environment variables via the security advisories package lookup feature, affecting servers with GitHub Packages enabled.
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