Status: KEV | Advisory ID: CVE-2026-60004
| CVE | CVE-2026-60004 |
| CVSS | CVSS 9.8 (Critical). |
| Affected products | Gitea Gitea |
| Exploitation status | Listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, indicating confirmed active exploitation. |
| Classified as | CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')) |
| KEV listing | Added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 2026-08-25. |
| Exploitation prediction (EPSS) | 87% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (100% percentile) -- FIRST.org's EPSS model. |
| Federal remediation deadline | 2026-08-28 (CISA KEV, Binding Operational Directive). |
Gitea contains a code injection vulnerability that allows an attacker with repository write access to send a malicious patch to the diffpatch API endpoint to plant an executable Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account.
| Source | Reference |
|---|---|
| NVD | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-60004 |