No fix yet for critical Gogs RCE bug - exploit module is out

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No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out

Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since

There's a huge hole and no one is patching it thus far. A critical, remote code execution (RCE) bug in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, can be exploited by any authenticated user - no special privileges required - on a default installation to fully compromise vulnerable servers, steal credentials and multi-factor authentication secrets, or even modify code in hosted repositories in a wide-reaching supply-chain attack.

A security researcher reported the 9.4-rated flaw to project maintainers in mid-March. It still doesn’t have a patch. It does, however, have a public Metasploit module - so we’d expect reports of in-the-wild exploitation to start very soon.

The vulnerability affects all supported platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS, and installation methods,...

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