Resource exhaustion in Gitea - CVE-2026-60018
Published: August 31, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU146358
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-60018
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in the OneDev migration downloader when processing the /~api/version/server response during a repository migration. A remote user can point a migration to a malicious OneDev-compatible server that returns an arbitrarily large or never-ending response body to cause a denial of service.
The issue is reachable through web, API, and background-task migration paths.
Affected software
Gitea
How to mitigate CVE-2026-60018
Install security update from vendor's website.
Gitea - update to 1.27.3