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.
Rapid7's Jonah Burgess has disclosed an unpatched argument-injection RCE in Gogs, the self-hosted Git service often used as a GitLab/GitHub Enterprise alternative. The flaw affects Gogs 0.14.2 and 0.15.0+dev and requires authentication, but Gogs ships with open registration enabled by default (DISABLE_REGISTRATION = false) and no repository creation limits, so any internet-facing default-configured instance is effectively unauthenticated-exploitable: an attacker creates an account and repo, enables rebase merging in settings, and the entire exploit chain runs without third-party interaction. Code execution lands as the Gogs server-process user. No CVE has been assigned and no patch is available; mitigations involve disabling open registration.
TrustStrike Labs