CVE-2026-64653 — GitHub CLI: Unescaped variable components in request URLs could allow path traversal
GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub’s official command line tool. Prior to 2.97.0, some HTTP request URLs interpolate variable path components without percent encoding, allowing URL path …
Published: 2026-08-06 · CVSS: 5.1 · CVSS 4.0
GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub’s official command line tool. Prior to 2.97.0, some HTTP request URLs interpolate variable path components without percent encoding, allowing URL path metacharacters in attacker-controlled repository or resource values to make gh address a different API endpoint or resource than the user intended. This issue is fixed in version 2.97.0.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7