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CVE-2020-28991

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Gitea 0.9.99 through 1.12.x before 1.12.6 does not prevent a git protocol path that specifies a TCP port number and also contains newlines (with URL encoding) in ParseRemoteAddr in modules/auth/repo_form.go.

Affected products

• Gitea Open Source Git Server: from 0.9.99 before 1.12.6 — fixed in 1.12.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Gitea Open Source Git Server 1.12.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/13525
• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.12.6
• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/13525
• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.12.6

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