High severity · published Feb 8, 2022
CVE-2021-45326
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in Gitea before 1.5.2 via API routes.This can be dangerous especially with state altering POST requests
8.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in Gitea before 1.5.2 via API routes.This can be dangerous especially with state altering POST requests.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
Gitea · Gitea
before 1.5.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45326
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45326
Release Notes
https://blog.gitea.io/2018/10/gitea-1.5.2-is-released/
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4838
Patch
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/4840
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