Vulnerability · Published Nov 1, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

CVE-2026-117646Gitea private repository listing to public-only tokens on profiles

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In plain English

A security flaw 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 0.2% (higher than 5% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS )–Not rated

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The repositories, stars and watching tabs of user profiles and the repository list of organization home pages included private repositories for every signed-in request without checking whether the request used a personal access token restricted to public resources (`public-only`). A holder of such a token could list the private repositories visible to the token's owner, and that user's stars and watches of private repositories. The API and the profile activity tab already applied the restriction. The impact is disclosure of repository names and metadata, not of repository content.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Gitea	Gitea	0 – before 28.3.0

References

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-wxcq-p34j-7cjj 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