Vulnerability · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

CVE-2026-96589Gitea private repository access retained after rejected transfer

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity 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 16% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

When a private repository is transferred to a user who lacks access, Gitea grants that recipient temporary read access as a collaborator so they can review the repository. Rejecting or cancelling the transfer did not revoke this collaboration, so the named recipient kept persistent read access to the private repository, including its code, issues, pull requests and wiki, and could clone it. The repository owner was not notified. Transfer-granted access is now removed while collaborations that existed before the transfer are preserved.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Gitea	Gitea	0 – through 1.27.3

Weakness: CWE-672, CWE-863 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-xfqq-h54g-92f8 vendor-advisory
Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39042 patch
Gitea 28.0.0 release announcement release-notes
go-gitea/gitea v28.0.0 release release-notes