High 7.5Published Oct 6, 2026

CVE-2026-96580Gitea Actions memory exhaustion through large static matrices

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 11:10 UTC)

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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.35%, higher than 27% of scored CVEs.

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): 0.35% (percentile 27)
Assigned by: Gitea
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Oct 7, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Gitea Gitea gitea:gitea (from the name)	through 1.27.3	CNA record
gitea gitea gitea:gitea	before 28.0.0	NVD

References

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-p3rv-cr5f-9gjhvendor-advisory
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39295patch
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/release-notes
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0release-notes

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