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medium 6.5

CVE-2026-63021 json

Gitea Swift package manifest memory exhaustion

published 2mo ago modified 28d ago also EUVD-2026-101083 , GHSA-fqxf-w92m-prvq

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository go-gitea/gitea. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Gitea's Swift package parser limits each manifest to 128 KiB but does not limit the number of manifests or their aggregate size before reading them into memory. An authenticated user with package-publish permission can upload a highly compressed archive containing many manifests, causing allocations far larger than the uploaded archive. This can exhaust memory, terminate the process, or cause request failures.

Patch / fix

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
28d ago

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Gitea Gitea

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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The maintainers of go-gitea/gitea published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.