Vulnerability · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea
CVE-2026-96400Gitea migration SSRF to reserved addresses through ALLOWED_DOMAINS
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity server-side request forgery in Gitea from Gitea. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
With `[migrations] ALLOWED_DOMAINS` set to a matching entry such as `*` or a hostname wildcard, Gitea's migration URL validation could permit reserved and link-local addresses, such as `169.254.169.254`, even when `ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS = false`. The local-network block list did not cover these ranges, and a hostname matching the allow list was accepted regardless of its resolved address. A user who can start migrations on such an instance could reach these addresses from the Gitea server; the default empty `ALLOWED_DOMAINS` configuration is not affected.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-918 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
References
- GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-54w9-6cc5-9wj9 vendor-advisory
- Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39426 patch
- Gitea 28.0.0 release announcement release-notes
- go-gitea/gitea v28.0.0 release release-notes