Gitea built-in SSH server authentication bypass through key case folding
When Gitea's built-in SSH server is enabled (`START_SSH_SERVER = true`), the presented public key was looked up with an SQL `LIKE` comparison of its encoded content, which is case-insensitive on some databases, including the default SQLite. An attacker who can construct a case variant of another user's registered RSA public key for which they can derive the private key could have that key matched to the victim's account and authenticate over SSH as that user. Keys are now looked up by fingerprint.
CVE-2026-103059
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-103059
Gitea
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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Structured affected-version data
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[
{
"vendor": "Gitea",
"product": "Gitea",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"versionType": "semver",
"lessThanOrEqual": "1.27.3"
}
],
"packageName": "gitea.dev",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-103059
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- Event
- #11862 · Revision 1
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