[UPDATE] [high] Gitea: Multiple vulnerabilities

CSIRTS triage

What

Multiple vulnerabilities in Gitea can allow security bypass, information disclosure, cross-site scripting, and file manipulation.

Who is affected

Users of Gitea are affected by these vulnerabilities.

Urgency

Remediation is urgent due to the high severity and potential for exploitation.

Action

Update to the latest version of Gitea.

AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.

Details

Source

CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)

Severity

high

Published

2026-07-06

Exploitation

Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Language

Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2025-2925

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689370.50% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 41% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689380.39% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 32% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689390.34% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 27% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689400.28% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 20% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689410.27% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 19% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689420.25% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 17% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689430.36% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 29% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689440.28% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 21% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689450.36% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 29% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
• Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-689460.25% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 17% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

Recent advisories for Gitea

A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.

• unknownexploitedGitea security advisory (AV26-845)cccs · 2026-08-25
• criticalexploitedCVE-2026-60004: Gitea Code Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2026-08-25
• high[UPDATE] [high] Gitea: Vulnerability allows bypassing of security measurescert-bund · 2026-08-21
• high[NEW] [high] Gitea: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-08-17
• medium[NEW] [medium] Gitea: Multiple Vulnerabilities Enable Information Disclosurecert-bund · 2026-08-14
• high[NEW] [high] Gitea: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-08-14

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