{"id":"CVE-2026-20779","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-20779","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:19:07.188Z","title":"Gitea versions from 1.5.0 before 1.26.3 have a TOTP single-use enforcement defect that allows a valid TOTP code to be accepted more than once across web two-factor authentication flows and the Basic Auth X-Gitea-OTP path.","description":"Gitea versions from 1.5.0 before 1.26.3 have a TOTP single-use enforcement defect that allows a valid TOTP code to be accepted more than once across web two-factor authentication flows and the Basic Auth X-Gitea-OTP path.","published":"2026-07-03T21:16:57.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-25T15:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-294"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00492,"percentile":0.41972,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.26.3-and-1.26.4/","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/38151","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.26.3","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-gx3v-q759-g323","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-gx3v-q759-g323","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20779","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}