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CVE-2026-58436: Gitea: ParseAcceptLanguage quadratic-time DoS via Locale middleware on unauthenticated requests

July 21, 2026

The Locale middleware that runs in front of every unauthenticated request calls golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage on the raw Accept-Language header without imposing a size or shape filter. The underlying parser has quadratic-time behaviour on long lists of malformed language tags. The CVE-2022-32149 guard that golang.org/x/text added in v0.3.8 caps the number of - characters in the input at 1000, but it does not cap _ characters even though the parser’s internal scanner aliases _ to - before parsing. A single unauthenticated GET request with an Accept-Language header built out of _ separators burns ~2 seconds of server CPU on the host running Gitea; ten concurrent attackers saturate a ten-core box for the duration of the attack while consuming ~1 MiB of upstream bandwidth per request.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-fw57-jgch-pgf3
  • github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/f452c369acc9f1bd05ec6ef9c2e4399062dd6da1
  • github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/38323
  • github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-fw57-jgch-pgf3
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58436

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.27.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.27.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.27.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  • CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Source file

go/code.gitea.io/gitea/CVE-2026-58436.yml

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