CVE-2020-28991: Gitea

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Gitea 0.9.99 through 1.12.x before 1.12.6 does not prevent a git protocol path that specifies a TCP port number and also contains newlines (with URL encoding) in ParseRemoteAddr in modules/auth/repo_form.go.

Affected products

• Gitea Gitea: from 0.9.99, before 1.12.6 (fixed in 1.12.6)

Published 2020-11-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.