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#5 The Hacker News general July 06, 2026 at 16:28 UTC

Threat Actors Probe Gitea Docker Flaw CVE-2026-20896 13 Days After Disclosure

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS 9.8) in Gitea Docker images — which allows unauthenticated privilege escalation by trusting the X-WEBAUTH-USER HTTP header from any IP — saw active exploitation attempts by threat actors just 13 days after public disclosure, per Sysdig research. The critical severity and rapid weaponization of this DevOps platform flaw pose significant supply chain risk to development pipelines.

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