Gitea expanded a workflow's static strategy.matrix into its full Cartesian product without a size limit when creating a run, before the fork pull request approval gate applied. A user who can open a pull request from a fork could submit a small workflow file whose matrix expands to a very large number of jobs, consuming server memory and potentially terminating the Gitea process. No runner is required. Static matrices above 256 combinations are now rejected before expansion.
CVE-2026-96580
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (26th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 49EG Risk 49/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.4%
- EPSS %ILE
- 26th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
October 6, 2026
Last Modified
October 7, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026v28.0.0
Patch available: go-gitea/gitea v28.0.0
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0chore(deps): update actionslib to v1.0.0
Fix merged in go-gitea/gitea PR #39295 on 2026-09-14 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39295Uncontrolled resource consumption — unapproved fork-PR workflow with a large static strategy.matrix exhausts server memory at run-creation · Advisory · go-gitea/gitea · GitHub
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-p3rv-cr5f-9gjhWeakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 11× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-10 04:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-08 19:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-08 08:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-07 20:22 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.50
- 2026-10-07 20:21 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-10-06 20:31 UTCNVD update
- 2026-10-06 19:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-06 19:31 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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