CVE-2026-118395

high

Description

Gitea 1.27.3 stopped personal access tokens restricted to public resources (`public-only`) from creating repositories through `POST /api/v1/user/repos` and `POST /api/v1/repos/migrate`, but `POST /api/v1/org/{org}/repos`, `POST /api/v1/orgs/{org}/repos`, `POST /api/v1/orgs` and `POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/generate` still accepted such tokens. A holder of a public-only token with the needed write scopes could create private repositories in organizations where the token's owner may create repositories, create private organizations, and generate private repositories from templates. The token still could not read the private repositories it created.

References

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-x5v4-836g-f95x

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39853

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39690

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-01

Updated: 2026-11-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00209