Summary
GitHub patched a critical RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854) in its internal git infrastructure that allowed authenticated users to compromise backend servers and access millions of repositories.
Take Action:
If you run GitHub Enterprise Server (version 3.19.1 or earlier), upgrade immediately to a patched version (3.14.25, 3.15.20, 3.16.16, 3.17.13, 3.18.8, 3.19.4, 3.20.0, or later) since nearly 90% of instances are still unpatched. Also check your audit logs at /var/log/github-audit.log for push operations with unusual special characters in option values to spot any exploitation attempts; if you use GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise Cloud, no action is needed since GitHub already fixed it.
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