Gitea Actions memory exhaustion through large static matrices

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  "id": "a8f558abd6827c4acd1b59dc99e6d0b0f6db7d18d201f40681ee3e67e6cf8ea4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gitea-2026-96580",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Gitea Actions memory exhaustion through large static matrices",
    "summary": "Gitea expanded a workflow's static `strategy.matrix` into its full Cartesian product without a size limit when creating a run, before the fork pull request approval gate applied. A user who can open a pull request from a fork could submit a small workflow file whose matrix expands to a very large number of jobs, consuming server memory and potentially terminating the Gitea process. No runner is required. Static matrices above 256 combinations are now rejected before expansion.",
    "evidence": "osv:BIT-gitea-2026-96580",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "gitea",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "28.0.0",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "BIT-gitea-2026-96580",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitea-2026-96580",
        "CVE-2026-96580",
        "GHSA-p3rv-cr5f-9gjh"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "SEMVER",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "28.0.0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "gitea",
            "purl": "pkg:bitnami/gitea",
            "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
          },
          "severity": [
            {
              "type": "CVSS_V3",
              "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/gitea/BIT-gitea-2026-96580.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-14T11:10:41.681531878Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/",
        "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39295",
        "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0",
        "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-p3rv-cr5f-9gjh",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96580"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cpes": [
          "cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        ],
        "severity": "High"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-96580",
        "evidence": "/aliases"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/database_specific/severity"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 316228,
  "published_at": "2026-10-14T08:43:14.885+00:00"
}