SCA: security update for code.gitea.io/gitea (GHSA-649p-mmhf-85c7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 445082

Description

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

- Gitea 1.25.5 caches a branch-specific write-permission result across multiple refs in one pre-receive hook
session, allowing a per-branch maintainer-edit grant to be reused for other refs and escalate to full
repository write access. (CVE-2026-27775)

Solution

Update the code.gitea.io/gitea library and its related packages to version 1.26.3 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-649p-mmhf-85c7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445082

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/22/2026

Updated: 7/22/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.06

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27775

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-27775

cwe: CWE-863