Just What We Needed: More Gitea Flaws

Gitea users can now generously gift remote code execution to anyone with repository write access. Remediation is mandated, assuming anyone actually bothers to patch.

Source: SecurityWeek

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Severity: Critical Mood: Expected

In another thrilling episode of why do we even bother, Gitea discovered that write access allows enterprising users to abuse the diffpatch API and plant malicious Git hooks. This delightful blunder naturally grants full command execution as the service account across exposed self-hosted deployments. CISA has predictably added it to their catalog, politely demanding everyone remediate the mess before disaster strikes. Same story, different day for administrators who thought their repositories were safe.

#PatchTuesday #SameOldStory

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