Vulnerability advisory

CVE-2026-27780

Gitea pre-receive hook can miss branch-protection checks after scanner errors

Published Jul 3, 2026Updated Oct 28, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as GHSA-vhq7-fwwh-7hjfGO-2026-6346

Severity

CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected versions

Repository

Affected commits	Fixed by commit
GIT github.com/go-gitea/gitea ↗
All commits before f09bea7af13bd00d07a34252468389d15de39a8d	`f09bea7af13bd00d07a34252468389d15de39a8d`
Also listed as affected (37) `v1.25.0-dev` `v1.24.0-dev` `v1.22.0-rc1` `v1.23.0-dev` `v1.22.0-rc0` `v1.21.0-rc0` `v1.22.0-dev` `v1.20.0-rc0` `v1.21.0-dev` `v1.20.0-dev` `v1.19.0-rc0` `v1.18.0-rc0` `v1.19.0-dev` `v1.18.0-dev` `v1.17.0-dev` `v1.16.0-rc1` `v1.15.0-rc1` `v1.16.0-dev` `v1.15.0-dev` `v1.14.0-dev` `v1.13.0-dev` `v1.12.0-dev` `v1.10.5` `v1.11.0-rc1` `v1.10.0-rc1` `v1.11.0-dev` `v1.9.0-rc1` `v1.10.0-dev` `v1.9.0-dev` `v1.7.0-dev` `v1.6.0-rc1` `v1.6.0-dev` `v1.5.0-rc1` `v1.5.0-dev` `v1.1.0` `v1.0.0` `v0.9.99`

Description

Gitea versions before 1.26.0 do not fail closed on bufio.Scanner errors while processing pre-receive hook input, allowing oversized input to bypass branch-protection checks.

CVE-2026-27780

Affected versions

Repository

Description

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