CVE-2026-3854

HIGHNVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-03-10. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-10744 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 40%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

The CVE record names the fixed release — apply it.

An improper neutralization of special elements vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker with push access to a repository to achieve remote code execution on the instance. During a git push operation, user-supplied push option values were not properly sanitized before being included in internal service headers. Because the internal header format used a delimiter character that could also appear in user input, an attacker could inject additional metadata fields through crafted push option values. This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program and has been fixed in GitHub Enterprise Server versions 3.14.25, 3.15.20, 3.16.16, 3.17.13, 3.18.7 and 3.19.4.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
56
EG Risk 56/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
40%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
40% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-30). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

The CVE record names the fixed release. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 10, 2026

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated May 2, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record.
Web page

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown | Wiz Blog

https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854
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Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.19 Docs

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/admin/release-notes#3.19.4
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Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.18 Docs

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.18/admin/release-notes#3.18.7
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Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.17 Docs

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.17/admin/release-notes#3.17.13
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Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.16 Docs

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.16/admin/release-notes#3.16.16
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Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.15 Docs

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.15/admin/release-notes#3.15.20
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Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14 Docs

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.14/admin/release-notes#3.14.25

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 39× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 202 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 103 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 40% · 98th percentile
  2. 2026-10-31 05:26 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-31 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  4. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 40% · 98th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-25 14:32 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  12. 2026-10-24 10:18 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 10:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  14. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
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  20. 2026-10-18 03:44 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  22. 2026-10-17 15:09 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-17 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  24. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
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  4. 2026-10-12 16:10 UTCEG score recompute
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  8. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
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  48. 2026-08-16 12:02 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-08-16 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  50. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 36% · 98th percentile
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  52. 2026-08-14 20:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  53. 2026-08-14 07:58 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-14 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  55. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 36% · 98th percentile
  56. 2026-08-12 23:15 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-08-12 23:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  58. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 36% · 98th percentile
  59. 2026-08-11 21:57 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-08-11 21:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  61. 2026-08-11 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 36% · 98th percentile
  62. 2026-08-11 05:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  63. 2026-08-10 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  64. 2026-08-09 20:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  65. 2026-08-09 07:40 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-08-09 07:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  67. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 36% · 98th percentile
  68. 2026-08-08 07:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  69. 2026-08-07 19:00 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-08-07 19:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  72. 2026-08-06 20:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-64fw-jx9p-5j24 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  73. 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 36% · 98th percentile
  74. 2026-08-06 02:09 UTCEG score recompute

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCroyaleybovich/CVE-2026-3854-lab
    Published Aug 2, 2026
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoClysophavin18/CVE-2026-3854-PoC
    Published Apr 29, 2026

    GitHub RCE via X-Stat Push Option Injection

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-3854?
CVE-2026-3854 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 10, 2026. An improper neutralization of special elements vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an attacker with push access to a repository to achieve remote code execution on the instance. During a git push operation, user-supplied push option values were not properly…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-3854 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-3854 was published on March 10, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-3854 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-3854 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 40% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-3854?
CVE-2026-3854 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-3854?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-3854 names the fix: "This vulnerability was reported via the GitHub Bug Bounty program and has been fixed in GitHub Enterprise Server versions 3.14.25, 3.15.20, 3.16.16, 3.17.13, 3.18.7 and 3.19.4."

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