CVE-2026-30955 Gokapi vulnerable to DoS in E2E Metadata Parser

What is CVE-2026-30955?

CVE-2026-30955 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Forceu Gokapi, published on 13 Mar 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gokapi is a self-hosted file sharing server with automatic expiration and encryption support. Prior to 2.2.4, An API endpoint accepts unbounded request bodies without any size limit. An authenticated user can cause an OOM kill and complete service disruption for all users. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.2.4.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-30955?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/forceu/gokapi. It affects 1 product.

Products include Forceu Gokapi.

How do I fix CVE-2026-30955?

Upgrade github.com/forceu/gokapi to 2.2.4 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-30955 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-30955 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Forceu Gokapi

• CVE-2026-28683 Gokapi: Stored XSS in SVG Hotlinks High 8.7
• CVE-2026-28682 Gokapi: Data Leak in Upload Status Stream Medium 6.4
• CVE-2026-29061 Gokapi: Privilege escalation via incomplete API-key permission revocation on user rank demotion Medium 5.4
• CVE-2026-29060 Gokapi: Privilege escalation with auth token Medium 5.0
• CVE-2025-48494 Gokapi vulnerable to stored XSS via uploading file with malicious file name Medium 4.8

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-qwc6-vc2v-2ggj, GO-2026-4698.