# CVE-2026-52796: Gogs: DoS in rendering issue index pattern

- Also known as: GHSA-4J89-2C4F-44C6, GO-2026-5124
- Severity: CVSS 3.5 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.14.3
- Published: 2026-06-24 · Updated: 2026-06-25

## Affected

- gogs: fixed in 0.14.3
- gogs.io/gogs (Go): fixed in 0.14.3
- gogs.io/gogs (Go): all versions

## Description

Gogs is an open source self-hosted Git service. Prior to 0.14.3, specially crafted issue index pattern can cause a panic when rendering, resulting in denial of service. In internal/markup/markup.go, RenderIssueIndexPattern renders the issue index pattern to a link using com.Expand, which is not safe: when the configured pattern contains an opening brace { but no closing brace }, strings.Index(template, "}") returns -1 and the subsequent slice template[:-1] triggers a panic. Once such a pattern is set, any page in the affected repository that contains an issue index reference such as #1 becomes unavailable. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gogs, gogs.io/gogs, upgrade to a fixed version (0.14.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/gogs/gogs/security/advisories/GHSA-4j89-2c4f-44c6

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