Vulnerability · Published Nov 1, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea
CVE-2026-116296Gitea archived repository release, milestone and label modification
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In plain English
A missing 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 0.3% (higher than 19% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The API routes for releases, release assets, milestones and repository labels did not reject changes to archived repositories. A user with write access to an archived repository, or a holder of such a user's write-scoped token, could replace or delete release assets while keeping their download URLs, delete releases and tags, and create, edit or delete milestones and labels of a repository that is meant to be read-only. Changing requests on these routes now return 423 Locked for archived repositories.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-862
References
- GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-6h2f-c8jm-84hc vendor-advisory
- Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39942 patch
- Fix backport to release/v28: go-gitea/gitea pull request #40085 patch
- Gitea 28.3.0 release announcement release-notes
- go-gitea/gitea v28.3.0 release release-notes