🔴 Critical: Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops Miner-Like Payload
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Gitea vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog following confirmed reports of active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-60004 with a CVSS score of 9.8, is a remote code execution vulnerability.
An attacker who possesses ordinary write access to a repository can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary shell commands on the underlying server. This effectively allows a low-privileged user to escalate their access to full system-level control, making the bug particularly dangerous for self-hosted instances of the popular Git service.
Given the severity and the confirmed exploitation, administrators are urged to verify their current Gitea version and apply the latest security patches immediately if they have not already done so. It is also recommended to audit repository access controls and review system logs for any unusual command execution or unauthorized changes.
- Verify your Gitea version against the latest patched release.
- Restrict write access to repositories to only trusted users.
- Monitor server logs for the execution of unexpected shell commands.
Source: The Hacker News
Are you running a self-hosted Gitea instance, and have you had to lock down repository write permissions as an immediate mitigation before patching?
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