Recently we had the pleasure to take a look at GitHub’s Enterprise appliance. The appliance allows one to deploy the excellent GitHub web interface locally to host code on-site. Besides the well known interface, which is similar to the one hosted at github.com, the appliance ships with a separate interface called the management console, which is used for administrative tasks like the configuration of the appliance itself. This management interface is completely decoupled from the user interface.
During our assessment we focused on the management console where we found several vulnerabilities (others may have found them, too). On November 11, 2014 GitHub released a security advisory which included the most critical findings that have been fixed in GitHub Enterprise 2.0.0. Because the advisory doesn’t include any detailed information, we will discuss some of those vulnerabilities in detail.
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