What is CVE-2019-11576?

CVE-2019-11576 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-04-28.

How severe is CVE-2019-11576?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Gitea

CVE-2019-11576

Gitea before 1.8.0 allows 1FA for user accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment. If a user's credentials are known, then an attacker could send them to the API without requiring the 2FA one-time password.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2019-04-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 77.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Gitea

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

blog.gitea.io/2019/04/gitea-1.8.0-is-released/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/6674 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-11576?: CVE-2019-11576 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-04-28.
How severe is CVE-2019-11576?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.