Vulnerability · Published Nov 1, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

CVE-2026-117635Gitea admin API public-only token scope bypass

Unrated

In plain English

A improper access control in Gitea from Gitea. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS )–Not rated

Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 95.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The `/api/v1/admin` route group did not enforce the `public-only` restriction of personal access tokens. A public-only token with admin scope issued by a site administrator could therefore list private organizations and the email addresses of all users, create organizations, obtain runner registration tokens and create new site administrator accounts, the last of which persists after the token is revoked. Tokens of users who are not site administrators cannot reach these routes; public-only tokens are now rejected on the admin API.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Gitea	Gitea	0 – before 28.3.0

Weakness: CWE-284, CWE-1259

References

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-37xv-m4w7-j2fh vendor-advisory
Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39690 patch
Fix backport to release/v28: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39853 patch
Gitea 28.3.0 release announcement release-notes
go-gitea/gitea v28.3.0 release release-notes