Improper Privilege Management in Gitea

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2021-45330 · BIT-gitea-2021-45330 · GHSA-pg38-r834-g45j · Published 09/02/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-45330 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting code.gitea.io/gitea, gitea (gitea).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 73.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.6.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
code.gitea.io/gitea Go	`< 1.6.0`	`1.6.0`
gitea gitea	`≤ 1.15.7`	No fix yet

Description

An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.

NVD description

An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45330 · ADVISORY
go-gitea/gitea · WEB
go-gitea/gitea#4840 · WEB
GitHub Advisory GHSA-pg38-r834-g45j · ADVISORY

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

code.gitea.io/gitea

< 1.6.0

1.6.0

gitea

≤ 1.15.7

No fix yet

Description

An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.

NVD description

An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.

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