Vulnerability advisory

CVE-2026-52814

Gogs: Unauthenticated Asymmetric Denial of Service (DoS) via SSH Handshake Stall (File Descriptor Exhaustion)

Published Updated OSV record ↗

Also known as GHSA-xp79-5mx3-jx52GO-2026-5765

Severity
  • CVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Affected versions

Repository

Affected commitsFixed by commit
GIT github.com/gogs/gogs ↗
All commits before 3ba8aca90e17e5410b7e8b227c9f29256ac3e8753ba8aca90e17e5410b7e8b227c9f29256ac3e875
Not specified7da9cda314054501e1a7938a9c4d7896f331b884
Also listed as affected (60)
  • v0.14.2-rc.1
  • v0.14.2
  • v0.14.1-rc.1
  • v0.14.1
  • v0.14.0-rc.1
  • v0.14.0
  • latest-commit-build
  • v0.11.91
  • v0.11.86
  • v0.11.79
  • v0.11.66
  • v0.11.53
  • v0.11.43
  • v0.11.34
  • v0.11.33
  • v0.11.29
  • v0.11.19
  • v0.11.4
  • v0.11
  • v0.11rc
  • v0.10.18
  • v0.10.8
  • v0.10
  • v0.10rc
  • v0.9.141
  • v0.9.128
  • v0.9.113
  • v0.9.97
  • v0.9.71
  • v0.9.60
  • v0.9.48
  • v0.9.46
  • v0.9.13
  • v0.9.0
  • v0.8.43
  • v0.8.25
  • v0.8.10
  • v0.8.0
  • v0.7.33
  • v0.7.22
  • v0.7.19
  • v0.7.6
  • v0.7.0
  • v0.6.15
  • v0.6.9
  • v0.6.3
  • v0.6.1
  • v0.5.13
  • v0.5.11
  • v0.5.9
  • v0.5.8
  • v0.5.5
  • v0.5.2
  • v0.5.0
  • v0.4.2
  • v0.4.1
  • v0.4.0
  • v0.3.1
  • v0.3.0
  • v0.2.0

Description

Gogs is an open source self-hosted Git service. Prior to 0.14.3, the Gogs built-in Go SSH server is vulnerable to an unauthenticated, asymmetric Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The application accepts inbound TCP connections and passes them to golang.org/x/crypto/ssh.NewServerConn inside a new goroutine without enforcing any read/write deadlines on the underlying net.Conn. An unauthenticated attacker can open multiple TCP connections to the SSH port and simply withhold the SSH protocol banner. This forces the server to spawn an unbounded number of goroutines that block indefinitely waiting for socket I/O. This leads to complete File Descriptor (FD) exhaustion, preventing legitimate users from accessing the Git SSH service, and ultimately destabilizing the entire Gogs process (e.g., causing internal log rotation failures). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.3.

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