CISA warned that attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Gitea, the popular self-hosted Git service, and added it to its exploited-vulnerabilities catalog. Tracked as CVE-2026-60004 and scored 9.8, the code-injection bug lets a user with repository write access send a malicious patch to the diffpatch API endpoint, planting an executable Git hook that runs shell commands as the Gitea service account. Crucially, default installations have open self-registration, so an unauthenticated attacker can simply register, create a repository, and gain code execution. It affects versions 1.17 through 1.27.0 and was fixed in July, and reports describe attackers dropping cryptocurrency miners, with one intrusion taking about eleven seconds.
Gitea patched a critical flaw in the self-hosted Git platform that lets an unauthenticated attacker read any file the service account can access, needing only a public repository and crafted Org-mode markup. Tracked as CVE-2026-59774 and scored 9.8, it stems from the markup-rendering endpoint: Gitea initializes its Org-mode library without restricting file access, so the include directive accepts absolute paths and returns their contents. No login or write access is required. Gitea warns it can chain to command execution: read the configuration file, extract the internal token, inject a Git hook, and trigger it during an anonymous clone. It affects versions 1.22.1 through 1.27.0, fixed in 1.27.1.
Attackers have started probing a critical flaw in Gitea's official Docker images, the self-hosted Git service used by many development teams. The images shipped a configuration that trusted the X-WEBAUTH-USER header from any source address, so with reverse-proxy login enabled, anyone who could reach the port could send that header and be authenticated as any user, no password required. Tracked as CVE-2026-20896 and rated 9.8, it was fixed in version 1.26.3 late last month, which removes the wildcard and makes reverse-proxy authentication opt-in. Sysdig reported the first exploitation attempt 13 days after disclosure, so far just reconnaissance, against some of the roughly 6,200 internet-facing Gitea instances.
Noscope has disclosed CVE-2026-27771 (CVSS 8.2), a flaw in the self-hosted Gitea version-control platform that lets unauthenticated remote attackers pull private container images with no account, password, or prior access. The 'private' designation on a container repository simply failed to enforce. It affects all Gitea versions before 1.26.2 and went undetected for nearly four years; Noscope estimates 30,000+ exposed deployments across 30+ countries, with most exposure in China, the US, Germany, France, and the UK, spanning healthcare, aerospace, retail, and ISPs. Forgejo is confirmed affected, and any Gitea fork should be treated as vulnerable until verified. Technical details were withheld to allow patching.
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