CVE-2024-55947 Gogs has a Path Traversal in file update API

What is CVE-2024-55947?

CVE-2024-55947 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in gogs, published on 23 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-55947?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including gogs.io/gogs. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gogs Gogs.

How do I fix CVE-2024-55947?

Upgrade gogs.io/gogs to 0.13.1 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-55947 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-55947 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in gogs

• CVE-2025-8110 Gogs Path Traversal Exploited High 8.7
• CVE-2024-56731 Gogs deletion of internal files allows remote command execution Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-1884 Remote Command Execution in gogs/gogs Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-1986 OS Command Injection in gogs/gogs Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-1992 Path Traversal in gogs/gogs Critical 10.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-qf5v-rp47-55gg, GO-2024-3356.