Access Control Bypass Affecting gitea.dev/modules/httplib package, versions <1.25.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITEADEVMODULESHTTPLIB-17816602
  • published7 Jul 2026
  • disclosed3 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-27779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gitea.dev/modules/httplib to version 1.25.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass via the handling of the forwarded-proto header when generating public URLs. An attacker can cause the application to generate spoofed canonical URLs by injecting or manipulating the forwarded-proto header value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1