CVE-2026-26194: Gogs: Release tag option injection in release deletion

Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2026-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Gogs is an open source self-hosted Git service. Prior to version 0.14.2, there's a security issue in gogs where deleting a release can fail if a user controlled tag name is passed to git without the right separator, this lets git options get injected and mess with the process. This issue has been patched in version 0.14.2.

Affected products

gogs: before 0.14.2 — fixed in 0.14.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: gogs 0.14.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/gogs/gogs/commit/a000f0c7a632ada40e6829abdeea525db4c0fc2d
https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/8175
https://github.com/gogs/gogs/releases/tag/v0.14.2
https://github.com/gogs/gogs/security/advisories/GHSA-v9vm-r24h-6rqm

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