CVE-2026-26231
HighCVSS 8.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs
Summary
A vulnerability in Gitea up to version 1.26.1 allows users with the 'Allow edits from maintainers' permission to commit changes to repositories they have read-only access to but should not be able to write.
Risk Assessment
The risk involves unauthorized modification of repositories by users, potentially leading to integrity breaches of source code and uncontrolled project changes.
Recommendation
It is recommended to immediately upgrade Gitea to a version later than 1.26.1 that includes a fix for this vulnerability.
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 versions up to and including 1.26.1 allow the Allow edits from maintainers permission path to authorize commits to repositories that the user can read but should not be able to write.