CVE-2026-28705 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitea	Gitea Open Source Git Server

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References

Link	Providers
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.5/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36799
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36839
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.5

History

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Gitea Gitea gitea Open Source Git Server
Vendors & Products		Gitea Gitea gitea Open Source Git Server

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Title		Gitea repository dumps write release assets using unsafe path names
Weaknesses		CWE-22
References		https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.5/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36799 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36839 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.5

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Gitea

Published: 2026-07-03T20:19:39.011Z

Updated: 2026-07-07T16:58:39.576Z

Reserved: 2026-03-03T03:25:28.526Z

Link: CVE-2026-28705

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-07T16:28:34.923Z

NVD

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Redhat

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