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#1 SecurityWeek general July 07, 2026 at 17:17 UTC

Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Researchers Warn

By Ionut Arghire

AI Summary

CVE-2026-20896, a critical authentication bypass flaw in Gitea, is under active exploitation — attackers can bypass authentication using a single HTTP header to access repositories and steal secrets. Security practitioners running self-hosted Gitea instances should patch immediately, as the ease of exploitation (single header manipulation) makes this a high-severity, low-barrier-to-entry attack.

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