CVE-2020-28991

highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.017 · 78 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.74% (78th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-284US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gitea gitea0.9.99 → 1.12.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitea0.9.99 → 1.12.6osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitea
Go github.com/go-gitea/gitea0.9.99 → 1.12.6osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/go-gitea/gitea

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-r7h7-chh4-5rvmImproper Access Control in Gitea2024-04-24ghsa · osvUS
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.
BIT-gitea-2020-289912024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-11-24modified 2026-06-17

references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/13525 cnnvd
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.12.6 cnnvd
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28991 cnnvd
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/13525 enisa_euvd
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.12.6 enisa_euvd
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/13525PatchThird Party Advisorynvd
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.12.6Release NotesThird Party Advisorynvd

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