Gitea issue reference parsing CPU exhaustion
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.
- Products
- gitea
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 28.0.0
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-95112
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Gitea issue reference parsing CPU exhaustion
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 14 Oct 2026, 08:43 UTC
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.
osv:BIT-gitea-2026-95112
gitea
Fixed versions: 28.0.0
Complete source record
{
"id": "26da38b28d28062dfaf4ad28e4c2dad5d9a6fa89f44ecbf167143acfc7eb04ab",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gitea-2026-95112",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Gitea issue reference parsing CPU exhaustion",
"summary": "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.",
"evidence": "osv:BIT-gitea-2026-95112",
"products": [
{
"name": {
"value": "gitea",
"evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
},
"prerequisites": [],
"fixed_versions": [
{
"value": "28.0.0",
"evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
}
],
"affected_versions": []
}
],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "BIT-gitea-2026-95112",
"aliases": [
"BIT-gitea-2026-95112",
"CVE-2026-95112",
"GHSA-467c-4w7p-8427"
],
"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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/gitea/BIT-gitea-2026-95112.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-14T11:10:53.888069651Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/",
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39396",
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0",
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-467c-4w7p-8427",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-95112"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"severity": "Medium"
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2026-95112",
"evidence": "/aliases"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/database_specific/severity"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 316239,
"published_at": "2026-10-14T08:43:09.671+00:00"
}