Medium severity · published Jul 3, 2026
CVE-2026-28705
Gitea repository dumps write release assets using unsafe path names
5.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Gitea versions before 1.25.5 use release tag names and asset names as filesystem path components when dumping release assets, allowing specially crafted names to affect dump output paths.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
Gitea Open Source Git Server · Gitea
before 1.25.5 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28705
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28705
blog.gitea.com
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.5/
github.com
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36799
github.com
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36839
github.com
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.5
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