A security vulnerability has been identified in Gitea, a popular tool many hosting clients use to host and manage code repositories. The issue allows an attacker who already has write access to one of your Gitea repositories to send a specially crafted malicious patch to a specific system endpoint. This lets the attacker install a harmful Git hook, which can run shell commands using the permissions of the Gitea service account on your hosting server. This means unauthorized users with write access to your code repositories could potentially run unwanted commands on your hosting environment, which may lead to data loss, unauthorized access to other files stored on your server, or other security risks.
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog — https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-60004
