Gitea Remote Code Execution (RCE) · CVE-2018-18926 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Gitea Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 15, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 15, 2023

Package

code.gitea.io/gitea (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.5.2

Patched versions

1.5.2

Description

Gitea before 1.5.4 allows remote code execution because it does not properly validate session IDs. This is related to session ID handling in the go-macaron/session code for Macaron.

References

Reviewed May 12, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 15, 2022

Last updated Sep 15, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H