What is CVE-2020-28991?

CVE-2020-28991 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gitea. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-11-24.

How severe is CVE-2020-28991?

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

Vulnerability in Gitea

CVE-2020-28991

Gitea 0.9.99 through 1.12.x before 1.12.6 does not prevent a git protocol path that specifies a TCP port number and also contains newlines (with URL encoding) in ParseRemoteAddr in modules/auth/repo_form.go.

EPSS: 0.017 (75.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Gitea
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-28991?: CVE-2020-28991 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gitea. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-11-24.
How severe is CVE-2020-28991?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.