CVE-2026-28740
An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in Gitea to gain elevated privileges, impersonate users, bypass security measures, manipulate data, and disclose confidential information.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges and manipulate data.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of Gitea.
- Urgency
- Remediation is high urgency due to the potential for exploitation.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of Gitea.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.32% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 24% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- high[UPDATE] [high] Gitea: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-06
- highCVE-2026-28740: Gitea versions up to and including 1.26.2 allow Git LFS object reuse to authorize private sour…nvd · 2026-07-03
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