CVE-2026-119546

Forgejo through 15.0.11, 16.0.7, and 17.0.1 Path Traversal via restore-repo

State: Published
Severity: 6.8 Medium
Published: Oct 30, 2026
Updated: Oct 30, 2026
Reserved: Oct 30, 2026

Description

Forgejo through 15.0.11, 16.0.0 through 16.0.7, and 17.0.0 through 17.0.1 contains a path traversal vulnerability in restore-repo that allows attackers to read files outside the dump directory via crafted asset paths. Attackers can supply a dump whose release.yml DownloadURL or PatchURL contains ../ sequences, importing files like app.ini as release attachments when an administrator restores it.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
forgejoforgejo	15.0.11 and earlierAffected 16.0.0 through 16.0.7Affected 17.0.0 through 17.0.1Affected

References

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/tag/v17.0.1/services/migrations/restore.go#L154technical-description
https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/forgejo-restore-file-openthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/38215relatedpatchissue-tracking
GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-xmj7-xj85-hfc3)relatedvendor-advisory
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejoproduct
VulnCheck Advisory: Forgejo through 15.0.11, 16.0.7, and 17.0.1 Path Traversal via restore-repothird-party-advisory

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