Information disclosure in Gitea



Published: 2018-10-08 | Updated: 2020-07-17
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2018-1000803
CWE-ID CWE-200
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe
Gitea
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor The Gitea Authors

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU31190

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000803

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information exposure

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

Gitea version prior to version 1.5.1 contains a CWE-200 vulnerability that can result in Exposure of users private email addresses. This attack appear to be exploitable via Watch a repository to receive email notifications. Emails received contain the other recipients even if they have the email set as private. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.1.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Gitea: 1.5.0

External links

http://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/4664
http://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/4664/files#diff-146e0c2b5bb1ea96c9fb73d509456e57


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



###SIDEBAR###