MEDIUM5.3

GHSA-7jvx-g65v-r899

Gitea release asset dumps permit path traversal through crafted names

Quick fix

GHSA-7jvx-g65v-r899 — code.gitea.io/gitea: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get code.gitea.io/gitea@v1.25.5

Details

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.

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Affected packages

Go/code.gitea.io/gitea

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.25.5

Fixgo get code.gitea.io/gitea@v1.25.5

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28705[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36799[WEB]
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36839[WEB]
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/833304ac15bce17d0f03c4852af5f60c186f6a70[WEB]
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/f7ac5076711af3a260f3f98b2c1f8c19b32f6d09[WEB]
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.5[WEB]
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.5[WEB]