CVE-2025-14046 HIGH

CVE-2025-14046: Insufficient HTML Sanitization Allows User-Controlled DOM Elements to Overwrite Server-Initialized Data Islands and Trigger Unintended Server-Side POST Requests

Vendor Github
Product Enterprise Server
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published December 11, 2025
Last update December 11, 2025

CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An improper neutralization of input vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed user-supplied HTML to inject DOM elements with IDs that collided with server-initialized data islands. These collisions could overwrite or shadow critical application state objects used by certain Project views, leading to unintended server-side POST requests or other unauthorized backend interactions. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to have access to the target GitHub Enterprise Server instance and to entice a privileged user to view crafted malicious content that includes conflicting HTML elements. This vulnerability affected all versions of GitHub Enterprise Server prior to 3.18.3, 3.17.9, 3.16.12, 3.15.16, and 3.14.21.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 11, 2025 CVE published
December 11, 2025 Record updated