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Vulnerability · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

CVE-2026-89182Gitea push-to-create bypass of FORCE_PRIVATE policy

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect authorization in Gitea from Gitea. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 9% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

With `[repository] FORCE_PRIVATE = true`, Gitea creates new repositories as private, but the post-receive hook still applied the `repo.private=false` push option to an empty repository created by push. Any user who can create repositories could make their new repository public in violation of the instance policy. The default configuration is not affected.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Gitea Gitea 1.27.0 – through 28.0.0

Weakness: CWE-863 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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