SCA: security update for code.gitea.io/gitea (GHSA-8qw8-rq86-9pc2)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 444838

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Gitea versions up to and including 1.26.1 have insufficient permission checks for Composer package source
links, which can expose private or internal package source information. (CVE-2026-27771)

Solution

Update the code.gitea.io/gitea library and its related packages to version 1.26.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qw8-rq86-9pc2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 444838

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/18/2026

Updated: 7/18/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.2

Percentile: 96.77

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27771

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-27771

cwe: CWE-862