When processing issue and comment bodies, Gitea scanned the entire preceding text for action keywords such as "closes" or "fixes" once per Markdown link, giving processing time quadratic in the input size. An authenticated user able to submit issue or comment content could send a crafted body of about 1 MB that keeps a CPU core busy for several minutes while holding a database transaction open.

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Description When processing issue and comment bodies, Gitea scanned the entire preceding text for action keywords such as "closes" or "fixes" once per Markdown link, giving processing time quadratic in the input size. An authenticated user able to submit issue or comment content could send a crafted body of about 1 MB that keeps a CPU core busy for several minutes while holding a database transaction open.
Title Gitea issue reference parsing CPU exhaustion
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Gitea

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Updated: 2026-10-06T19:25:12.973Z

Reserved: 2026-10-04T21:59:53.573Z

Link: CVE-2026-95112

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-06T20:17:34.963

Modified: 2026-10-06T20:17:34.963

Link: CVE-2026-95112

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