High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Gitea through 1.11.5. An attacker can trigger a deadlock by initiating a transfer of a repository's ownership from one organization to another.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13246
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Gitea through 1.11.5. An attacker can trigger a deadlock by initiating a transfer of a repository's ownership from one organization to another.
osv:CVE-2020-13246
Complete source record
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"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/10549",
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/11438",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 441219,
"published_at": "2020-05-20T18:15:12.667+00:00"
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