Gogs up to 0.13.0 path traversal

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Gogs up to 0.13.0. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-55947. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Gogs up to 0.13.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Gogs is an open source self-hosted Git service. A malicious user is able to write a file to an arbitrary path on the server to gain SSH access to the server. The vulnerability is fixed in 0.13.1.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-55947 since 12/13/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213966 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.13.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 9a9388ace25bd646f5098cb9193d983332c34e41 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (213966). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Name

• Gogs

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13.0

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/gogs/gogs/

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