Gitea Code Injection Vulnerability

Gitea Gitea

Gitea contains a code injection vulnerability that allows an attacker with repository write access to send a malicious patch to the diffpatch API endpoint to plant an executable Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-08-25 (federal deadline 2026-08-28).

First seen: 25 Aug 2026
Last update: 25 Aug 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2026-60004
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: CI servers

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## Gitea Code Injection Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: Gitea Gitea
Ids: CVE-2026-60004

Gitea contains a code injection vulnerability that allows an attacker with repository write access to send a malicious patch to the diffpatch API endpoint to plant an executable Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-08-25 (federal deadline 2026-08-28).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (ci). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2026-60004") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-rcr6-4jqh-j84m https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-60004
https://pwned.coffee/i/gitea-code-injection-vulnerability-cve-2026-60004

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