New Gitea RCE Lets Repository Writers Plant a Git Hook to Run Shell Commands

Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A user with ordinary repository write access can turn attacker-controlled patch content into a live Git hook and run shell commands as the G…
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