CVE-2019-11576 Gitea Allows 1FA Even for 2FA-Enrolled Accounts

What is CVE-2019-11576?

CVE-2019-11576 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 28 Apr 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gitea before 1.8.0 allows 1FA for user accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment. If a user's credentials are known, then an attacker could send them to the API without requiring the 2FA one-time password.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11576?

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-2019-11576?

Upgrade code.gitea.io/gitea to 1.8.0 or later.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2019-11576 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11576 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-3393-r4p5-vhqh, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11576.