CVE-2026-95112
Received
Received - Intake
Denial of Service in Gitea via Quadratic Processing
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-95112, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-06
Last updated on: 2026-10-06
Assigner: Gitea Limited
Description
Description
When processing issue and comment bodies, Gitea scanned the entire preceding text for action keywords such as "closes" or "fixes" once per Markdown link, giving processing time quadratic in the input size. An authenticated user able to submit issue or comment content could send a crafted body of about 1 MB that keeps a CPU core busy for several minutes while holding a database transaction open.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| Gitea | Gitea | 0 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-UNKNOWN |
