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CVE-2026-72924 json

GitHub CLI: `gh codespace ports forward` exposes forwarded services on all network interfaces by default

published 2mo ago modified 2mo ago also EUVD-2026-66116 , GHSA-vfhh-p7hm-pxfh

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository cli/cli. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
2.1
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub's official command line tool. Versions 2.28.0 through 2.97.0 bind the local listener created by gh codespace ports forward to all available network interfaces by default. While port forwarding is active, a service in a Codespace can therefore become reachable through the user's non-loopback local IP addresses by other hosts that can route to the user's machine. This behavior does not change the GitHub-side visibility of the Codespaces port. Instead, it exposes the forwarded service through a wildcard-bound listener on the user's local machine, even when the source Codespaces port remains private. Exploitation requires a network-adjacent attacker to reach the victim's machine while forwarding is active. This issue is fixed in version 2.98.0.

Patch / fix

  • github cli 2.98.0
  • gh openSUSE Leap 16.0 2.102.0-bp160.1.1
  • gh openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.102.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:22134-1openSUSE-SU-2026:12163-1

  • gh Azure Linux 3.0 2.101.0-1

azure linux advisories AZL-98198

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-72924 updated cvss 4.6

github.com/cli/cli: GitHub CLI: Forwarded services exposed on all network interfaces by default

  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 rhoso-operators/openstack-operator-bundle
    affected: workaround, no fix available “There are no known mitigations available for this vulnerability at this time. Red Hat recommends applying the available security update once it is released.”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 2.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 2.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • cli cli

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1327 Binding to an Unrestricted IP Address
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Sources

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The maintainers of cli/cli published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.