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🛡️ CVE-2024-39931 — gogs

🔴 CVSS 9.9 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-552 NVD
9.9
CVSS Score
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Description

Gogs allows deletion of internal files

Impact

Unprivileged user accounts can execute arbitrary commands on the Gogs instance with the privileges of the account specified by RUN_USER in the configuration. It allows attackers to access and alter any users' code hosted on the same instance.

Patches

Deletion of .git files has been prohibited (https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/7870). Users should upgrade to 0.13.1 or the latest 0.14.0+dev.

Workarounds

No viable workaround available, please only grant access to trusted users to your Gogs instance on affected versions.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39931

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-39931 is classified as CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties. Files intended to stay internal are reachable from outside the application.

Affected software

CVE-2024-39931 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • github.com/gogs/gogs
  • gogs (fixed in 0.13.0)
  • gogs.io/gogs

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2024 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
www.sonarsource.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/gogs/gogs has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-552
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/gogs/gogs — —
gogs — 0.13.0
gogs.io/gogs — —

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