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CVE-2026-95112BIT-GITEA-2026-95112GHSA-467C-4W7P-8427

Gitea issue reference parsing CPU exhaustion

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 28.0.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

When processing issue and comment bodies, Gitea scanned the entire preceding text for action keywords such as "closes" or "fixes" once per Markdown link, giving processing time quadratic in the input size. An authenticated user able to submit issue or comment content could send a crafted body of about 1 MB that keeps a CPU core busy for several minutes while holding a database transaction open.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • gitea.dev

    through 1.27.3

  • giteaBitnami

    fixed in 28.0.0

References 4

GitHub · go-gitea/gitea

blog.gitea.com