CVE-2026-27775
HighCVSS 8.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs
Summary
In Gitea 1.25.5, a branch-specific write-permission result is cached across multiple refs in one pre-receive hook session. This allows a per-branch maintainer-edit grant to be reused for other refs, escalating to full repository write access.
Risk Assessment
The organization is at risk of unauthorized repository modifications by users who should have limited permissions only to specific branches. This can lead to code integrity breaches and uncontrolled changes across the entire repository.
Recommendation
Immediately upgrade Gitea to version 1.25.6 or later, which includes a fix that removes permission caching in the pre-receive hook session.
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 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.