Summary 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 under…
| CVE ID | CVE-2026-58436 |
| Vendor | go |
| Affected Product | code.gitea.io/gitea |
| Vulnerability Type | Vulnerability |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 (HIGH) |
| Actively Exploited | ❌ No known exploitation |
| Patch Status | See Vendor Advisory → |
| Reported By | CYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories) |
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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 Mi
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