CVE-2018-1000803 Gitea Exposes Private Email Addresses

What is CVE-2018-1000803?

CVE-2018-1000803 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 8 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gitea version prior to version 1.5.1 contains a CWE-200 vulnerability that can result in Exposure of users private email addresses. This attack appear to be exploitable via Watch a repository to receive email notifications. Emails received contain the other recipients even if they have the email set as private. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.1.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1000803?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/go-gitea/gitea. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1000803?

Upgrade github.com/go-gitea/gitea to 1.5.1 or later.

Is CVE-2018-1000803 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1000803 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Gitea Gitea

• CVE-2026-60004 Gitea Code Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-73278 Gitea WebAuthn bypass during OAuth and OIDC sign-in Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-94205 Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through maintainer-triggered events Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-42968 Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-45330 Improper Privilege Management in Gitea Critical 9.8

All Gitea Gitea vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f5fj-7265-jxhj, GO-2022-0823.