cve-2021-22863
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-03 03:25
Modified
2024-08-03 18:51
Severity ?
Summary
Improper access control in GitHub Enterprise Server leading to unauthorized changes to maintainer permissions on pull requests
Impacted products
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