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🛡️ CVE-2024-39933 — gogs

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-88 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Gogs allows argument Injection when tagging new releases

Impact

Unprivileged user accounts with at least one SSH key can read arbitrary files on the system. For instance, they could leak the configuration files that could contain database credentials ([database] *) and [security] SECRET_KEY. Attackers could also exfiltrate TLS certificates, other users' repositories, and the Gogs database when the SQLite driver is enabled.

Patches

Unintended Git options has been ignored for creating tags (https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/7872). 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-2024-39933

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 none, availability none.

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:N/A:N

  • 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: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-39933 is classified as CWE-88: Argument Injection. Input is passed into a command line without separating data from options, letting an attacker introduce extra arguments.

Affected software

CVE-2024-39933 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-88: Argument Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-88
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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