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Critical Gitea Unauthenticated File Read Fixed in 1.27.1

2026-08-05 13:01 UTC · The Hacker News · read the source ↗ #gitea#path-traversal#self-hosted-git
  • Engineer — Act: Unauthenticated CVSS 9.8 file read affecting any Gitea 1.22.1–1.27.0 instance; a public repo and crafted Org-mode markup are the only prerequisites, exposing any file the service account can read (secrets, keys, configs). Patch to Gitea 1.27.1 immediately and audit service-account file permissions as a follow-up.
  • SOC/IR — Learn: No public PoC, no KEV listing, and no reported active exploitation means there is no immediate detection or hunt workload; awareness is useful context for triaging future anomalous Gitea traffic if exploitation begins.
  • Leader — Skip
  • Signals: CVE-2026-59774 — CISA KEV: not listed, EPSS n/a, no public PoC found
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