CYBERSECURITYTRACKER
Permanent story citation

CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability

This page keeps the story as Cybersecurity Tracker first published it. If the tracker later corrects it, the correction appears below the original and never replaces it.

Back to newsStory 5052

As cited

Copy frozen at (site build).

vulnerabilities

CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability

No summary had been written when this copy was frozen.

First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Correction

Correction recorded as of .

vulnerabilities

CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability

Gitea developers patched CVE-2026-60004, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, in version 1.27.1 released in late July. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning regarding active exploitation of this flaw.

Why it matters: Organizations running Gitea must upgrade to version 1.27.1 or later immediately, as this RCE vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.

Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Correction

Correction recorded as of .

vulnerabilities

CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability

Gitea developers patched CVE-2026-60004, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, in version 1.27.1 released in late July. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning regarding active exploitation of this flaw.

Why it matters: Organizations running Gitea must upgrade to version 1.27.1 or later immediately, as this RCE vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.

Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Correction

Correction recorded as of .

vulnerabilities

CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability

CVE-2026-60004 is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Gitea that received a patch in version 1.27.1 in late July, 2026. CISA has warned that the vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.

Why it matters: Organizations running Gitea instances must upgrade immediately to version 1.27.1 or later to prevent RCE attacks, as exploitation is confirmed and ongoing.

Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Glossary