CVE-2026-72924: cli Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-72924 is a low (CVSS 2.1) Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in cli. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 25-08-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 26-08-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-668Exposure of Resource to Wrong SphereThe product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource.
• CWE-1327Binding to an Unrestricted IP AddressThe product assigns the address 0.0.0.0 for a database server, a cloud service/instance, or any computing resource that communicates remotely.