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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2021-29134 json

Path Traversal in Gitea

published 2022-03-15 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-gitea-2021-29134 , EUVD-2022-1436 , GHSA-h3q4-vmw4-cpr5 , GO-2022-0353

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The avatar middleware in Gitea before 1.13.6 allows Directory Traversal via a crafted URL.

Patch / fix

  • go code.gitea.io/gitea 1.13.6
  • bitnami gitea 1.13.6
  • gitea gitea 1.13.6
  • gitea Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +8 more 1.13.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-29134

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go code.gitea.io/gitea
<1.13.6
1.13.6
bitnami gitea
<1.13.6
1.13.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.