Vulnerability · Published Nov 1, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

CVE-2026-119625Gitea user and organization feed token scope bypass

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In plain English

A incorrect authorization 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 9% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS )–Not rated

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The `/{username}` web route accepted personal access tokens over HTTP Basic authentication without checking their scope. A token confined to an unrelated scope, such as `read:issue`, could read its owner's private activity through the user RSS/Atom feed and the profile activity tab, and other members' activity in a private organization through the organization feed; a public-only token could list the owner's private repositories and organizations and render private profile READMEs. For a site administrator's token this applied to every account. Tokens are now accepted on this route only for feeds, which require `read:user` or `read:organization`.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Gitea	Gitea	0 – before 28.3.0

Weakness: CWE-863

References

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-3fv3-hhmm-4x2q vendor-advisory
Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39945 patch
Fix backport to release/v28: go-gitea/gitea pull request #40115 patch
Gitea 28.3.0 release announcement release-notes
go-gitea/gitea v28.3.0 release release-notes