Vulnerability in GitHub (CVE-2025-52569)

Summary

Vulnerability in GitHub (CVE-2025-52569). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via repo_name. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.9.1 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

There is a lack of input validation for user-provided values in certain functions.

In the GitHub.repo() function, the user can provide any string for the repo_name field. These inputs are not validated or safely encoded and are sent directly to the server.

Impact

This means a user can add path traversal patterns like ../ in the input to access any other endpoints on api.github.com that were not intended.

Patches

Users should upgrade immediately to v5.9.1 or later. All prior versions are vulnerable. We recommend users upgrade to v5.10.0

Workarounds

None

References

Fixed by: https://github.com/JuliaWeb/GitHub.jl/pull/224 (which is available in v5.9.1).

Credits

splitline from the DEVCORE Research Team for reported similar issues in other packages. Audit of equivalent problems in this package resulted in this issue, found by Dilum Aluthge.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-52569 has been found in GitHub.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like repo_name over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade GitHub to 5.9.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "GitHub CVE-2025-52569" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-52569 (GitHub)
Attack surface: repo_name / api.github.com
Patched: 5.9.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in GitHub. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via repo_name.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of GitHub. Attack surface: repo_name / api.github.com.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 5.9.1.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'GitHub' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'GitHub' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で GitHub を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade GitHub to 5.9.1
```
ステージング環境で 5.9.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Julia GitHub

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.9.1"}]}]

References

web github.com
web github.com