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May 27, 2026 at 10:06 UTC
Gitea Vulnerability Exposes Private Container Images without Authentication
By [email protected] (The Hacker News)
AI Summary
A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-27771 in Gitea, affecting all versions prior to 1.26.2, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to pull private container images from self-hosted Gitea deployments without any credentials. Given Gitea's widespread use as a self-hosted GitHub alternative in enterprise and developer environments, unpatched instances may expose sensitive proprietary code or internal infrastructure details. Administrators should upgrade to Gitea 1.26.2 immediately.
Relevance score: 82.0/100
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