CVE-2026-103059

When Gitea's built-in SSH server is enabled (`START_SSH_SERVER = true`), the presented public key was looked up with an SQL `LIKE` comparison of its encoded content, which is case-insensitive on some databases, including the default SQLite. An attacker who can construct a case variant of another user's registered RSA public key for which they can derive the private key could have that key matched to the victim's account and authenticate over SSH as that user. Keys are now looked up by fingerprint.

CVSS 3.1

9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-305

Published

2026-10-06

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gitea:gitea

References

• https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/
• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39423
• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0
• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-8pwg-hcgm-54cp

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