Critical
Security advisory
An Authentication Bypass vulnerability exists in Gitea before 1.5.0, which could let a malicious user gain privileges. If captured, the TOTP code for the 2FA can be submitted correctly more than once.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-45331
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An Authentication Bypass vulnerability exists in Gitea before 1.5.0, which could let a malicious user gain privileges. If captured, the TOTP code for the 2FA can be submitted correctly more than once.
osv:CVE-2021-45331
Complete source record
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