9.8

CVE-2020-28991: gitea

Modified
AliasesGHSA-r7h7-chh4-5rvmBIT-gitea-2020-28991
Published 24-11-2020Last modified 04-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-28991 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in gitea. EPSS estimates a 1.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.74%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 24-11-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.74%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

78%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.74% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Gitea1 product
  • gitea≥ 0.9.99, < 1.12.6
Github.com/go-gitea1 product
  • gitea≥ 0.9.99, < 1.12.6

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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