CuraSec

tag: Path-Traversal · 2 items

2026-08-05 · The Hacker News · 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
  • Engineer — Act: Active in-the-wild exploitation confirmed by VulnCheck and a public PoC is available; if you self-host Windmill, patch immediately and audit web server logs for unauthenticated requests to the /api/w/{workspace}/jobs_u/get_log_file/ endpoint containing traversal sequences.
  • SOC/IR — Act: Active exploitation with public PoC means opportunistic scanning is already underway; hunt web proxy and WAF logs for path traversal patterns (e.g., ../) in requests to Windmill’s get_log_file endpoint, and sweep for unusual file reads on any Windmill hosts since the PoC dropped.
  • Leader — Skip
  • Signals: CVE-2026-29059 — CISA KEV: not listed, EPSS 0.03, public PoC on GitHub