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Gogs: Password-reset tokens use account-activation lifetime, ignoring RESET_PASSWORD_CODE_LIVES

Published Jun 24, 2026

Description

Gogs is an open source self-hosted Git service. Prior to 0.14.3, password-reset tokens are generated using conf.Auth.ActivateCodeLives (the account-activation lifetime), not conf.Auth.ResetPasswordCodeLives. The token lifetime is baked into the token itself at generation time and is re-extracted from the token at verification time, making RESET_PASSWORD_CODE_LIVES irrelevant to actual enforcement. When an administrator configures a shorter reset window (e.g., 10 minutes) for compliance or security reasons, reset tokens remain exploitable for the full activation lifetime instead, while the reset email falsely advertises the shorter expiry. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.3.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

References (7)

Change history (3)
  1. CISA ADP
    • SSVC technical impact

      changed from total to partial

  2. CISA ADP
    • SSVC technical impact

      changed from partial to total

  3. CISA ADP
    • SSVC technical impact

      changed from total to partial

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Jun 24, 2026
Updated Jun 26, 2026
Reserved Jun 8, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jun 25, 2026
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 26, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Jun 24, 2026
Updated Jun 26, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2026-39079 GHSA-5C3F-6486-3G7G