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CVE-2026-15996 Denial of service vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allowed unauthenticated service disruption via deeply nested request parameters

🗓️ 05 Aug 2026 20:12:57Reported by GitHub_PType 
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A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption and exhaust the pool of request-handling worker processes by sending a crafted form-encoded HT...

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    "vendor": "GitHub",
    "product": "Enterprise Server",
    "versions": [
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.17.0",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.17.15",
        "changes": [
          {
            "at": "3.17.16",
            "status": "unaffected"
          }
        ],
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.18.0",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.18.9",
        "changes": [
          {
            "at": "3.18.10",
            "status": "unaffected"
          }
        ],
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.19.0",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.19.6",
        "changes": [
          {
            "at": "3.19.7",
            "status": "unaffected"
          }
        ],
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.20.0",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.20.2",
        "changes": [
          {
            "at": "3.20.3",
            "status": "unaffected"
          }
        ],
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]

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05 Aug 2026 20:12Current
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