A repository's external issue tracker regular expression containing alternating capture groups could produce invalid slice indexes when Gitea rendered issue references, causing a runtime panic that terminated the Gitea process. A user who can edit a repository's external issue tracker settings could make any later rendering of matching content, such as viewing a README, crash the instance for all users.
{
"cna_assigner": "Gitea",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-125",
"CWE-248"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/96xxx/CVE-2026-96399.json"
}{
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "28.0.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"original_tag": "v28.0.0",
"range": [
{
"fixed": "15b8a5805adf57c5189602008d38cccfd3c795e0"
}
],
"source": "REFERENCES_TAG"
}
]
}