8.2

CVE-2025-68939: gitea Improper Protection of Alternate Path

Analyzed
AliasesGHSA-263q-5cv3-xq9gBIT-gitea-2025-68939GO-2025-4261
Published 26-12-2025Last modified 26-12-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68939 is a high (CVSS 8.2) Improper Protection of Alternate Path vulnerability in gitea. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
33/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.2/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.33%
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

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1SUSE-SU-2026:0037-1CGA-7PRG-43G9-M6H3

Timeline

  1. 26-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Gitea before 1.23.0 allows attackers to add attachments with forbidden file extensions by editing an attachment name via an attachment API.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.33%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

25%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.33% 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

Affected systems

Chainguard1 product
  • gitea-fips< 1.23.0-r0
Code.gitea.io1 product
  • giteaAll versions (No fix recorded)
Gitea1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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