Buffer Overflow in gitea

published 2021-02-05 5 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-gitea-2021-3382 , EUVD-2024-1170 , GHSA-9f8c-pfvv-p4gm , GO-2024-2757

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits: 0; none known

Stack buffer overflow vulnerability in gitea 1.9.0 through 1.13.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to a file path.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3 distros 1 links 1

go github.com/go-gitea/gitea 1.13.2
bitnami gitea 1.13.2
go code.gitea.io/gitea 1.13.2

gitea Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +8 more 1.13.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-3382

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

github.com/go-gitea/gitea#14390 pull request

Exploit prediction

1.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
GitHub	3.1	7.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
go	github.com/go-gitea/gitea	>=1.9.0, <1.13.2	1.13.2
bitnami	gitea	>=1.9.0, <1.13.2	1.13.2
go	code.gitea.io/gitea	>=1.9.0, <1.13.2	1.13.2

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

github.com /go-gitea/gitea/pull/14390
web, third-party-advisory, advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3382
advisory, web
github.com /go-gitea/gitea
package
github.com /advisories/GHSA-9f8c-pfvv-p4gm
advisory

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.

Summary