CVE-2026-20736
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk28th percentile - higher than 28% of all known CVEs
Summary
A vulnerability in Gitea allows a user to delete an attachment from a repository they no longer have access to by making the request through a different accessible repository. This is due to improper verification of repository context when deleting attachments.
Risk Assessment
The organization is at risk of unauthorized deletion of attachments in repositories, potentially leading to data loss or disruption of development teams.
Recommendation
Update Gitea immediately to a patched version that fixes this vulnerability. Until then, restrict repository access and monitor attachment deletion operations.
Other vulnerabilities in Gitea
See all- CVE-2026-60004CriticalActively exploited
Gitea before version 1.27.1 allows remote code execution via the diffpatch API through Git hook installation.
- CVE-2026-58508Critical
Two SSRF vulnerabilities in Gitea migration/mirror (DNS rebinding + missing re-validation).
- CVE-2026-58443Critical
Public-only repository tokens can update private PR head branches.
- CVE-2026-58433Critical
The team-repository linking endpoint bypasses the RepoAdminChangeTeamAccess organization setting. This means a user without proper permissions can change repository-team assignments.
- CVE-2026-56750Critical
Theft of the Remember-Me token in Gitea does not invalidate the attacker's session, allowing continued unauthorized access.
- CVE-2026-56654Critical
The vulnerability allows privilege escalation via access token scope escalation in the API.
- CVE-2026-56443Critical
A public-only scope token can bypass restrictions on limited-visibility owners (Repository and Package categories) — residual after CVE-2026-25714 / PR #37118.
- CVE-2026-55982Critical
The OIDC userinfo endpoint returns identity claims without enforcing API token scopes.
- CVE-2026-58426Critical
The vulnerability in Gitea Actions Artifacts V4 stems from HMAC ambiguity in signed URLs, allowing cross-repository artifact read and cross-task upload-state write.
- CVE-2026-27780Critical
A vulnerability in Gitea before version 1.26.0 fails to close the connection on bufio.Scanner errors while processing pre-receive hook input, allowing oversized input to bypass branch-protection checks.
Original NVD description (English source)
Gitea does not properly verify repository context when deleting attachments. A user who previously uploaded an attachment to a repository may be able to delete it after losing access to that repository by making the request through a different repository they can access.