Gitea
Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks
Over 8,300 Internet-exposed Gitea instances are still unpatched against a critical security flaw exploited in ongoing remote code execution attacks, according to cybersecurity watchdog Shadowserver. The code injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-60004) targeted in these attacks was reported by Salesforce security researcher Shai Rod, and it allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of […]
Hackers now exploit critical Gitea flaw in code injection attacks
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in the Gitea self-hosted Git service, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Like cloud-hosted GitHub or GitLab SaaS (Software as a Service) platforms, Gitea provides a full suite of DevOps tools, but it is designed to be used as a self-hosted software development platform. […]
Hackers exploit critical auth bypass in Gitea Docker image
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the official Docker image for the Gitea self-hosted Git service that allows attackers to impersonate any user, including administrators. The security flaw is an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20896, that affects deployments using the default configuration, where reverse proxy authentication headers such as X-WEBAUTH-USER are enabled. Michael […]