CVE-2019-1000002 Gitea Arbitrary File Delete Vulnerability

What is CVE-2019-1000002?

CVE-2019-1000002 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 4 Feb 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gitea version 1.6.2 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in Delete/Edit file functionallity that can result in the attacker deleting files outside the repository he/she has access to. This attack appears to be exploitable via the attacker must get write access to "any" repository including self-created ones.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.6.3, 1.7.0-rc2.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1000002?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including code.gitea.io/gitea. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2019-1000002?

Upgrade code.gitea.io/gitea to 1.6.3 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2019-1000002 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1000002 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-j99q-rwp6-498g.