Red Heron Exploits Critical Gitea Flaw to Steal Repositories and Deploy Linux Rootkit
Red Heron exploited Gitea CVE-2026-60004 to steal repositories and deploy the JITTERLY backdoor and SIXZUT rootkit.
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Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries
China-linked Red Heron exploited Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 to compromise 13 organizations across six countries, stealing source code.
Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks
Over 8,300 internet-facing Gitea servers are exposed to active exploitation of CVE-2026-60004, an authenticated code injection flaw enabling arbitrary code execution.
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U.S. CISA adds Gitea flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
CISA added the actively exploited Gitea RCE flaw CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS 9.8) to its KEV catalog, with federal patching due by August 28, 2026.
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Critical Gitea vulnerability now exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-60004)
Attackers are actively exploiting critical Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 via the diffpatch endpoint, prompting CISA KEV addition and at least one cryptomining compromise.
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Critical Gitea Flaw Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Org
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