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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2026-42931 json

Denial of Service via Unbounded io.ReadAll in NPM Package Tag Endpoint

published 2026-07-21 3 mo ago modified 2026-08-26 2 mo ago also GHSA-wwqq-x6w4-frm2 , GO-2026-6082 , EUVD-2026-58135

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Denial of Service via Unbounded io.ReadAll in NPM Package Tag Endpoint

Patch / fix

  • go code.gitea.io/gitea 1.27.0
  • go gitea.dev 1.27.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLES 16.0, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 0.0.20260727T201416-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23216-1SUSE-SU-2026:23227-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260727T201416-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21551-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-42931 updated cvss 6.5

code.gitea.io/gitea: Gitea: Denial of Service due to unbounded memory consumption in NPM package tag endpoint

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go code.gitea.io/gitea
<1.27.0
1.27.0
go gitea.dev
<1.27.0
1.27.0

Affected products

  • Gitea Gitea Open Source Git Server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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