CVE-2026-116289 PUBLISHED

Gitea public-only token bypass through Actions runner registration

Assigner: Gitea
Reserved: 01.11.2026 Published: 01.11.2026 Updated: 01.11.2026

Gitea did not reject personal access tokens restricted to public resources (public-only) on the organization Actions runner registration-token endpoint, and the runner registered with the resulting token was not limited to public repositories. Holding only such a token with write:organization that belongs to an owner of a public organization, an attacker could register an organization-level runner and receive jobs of the organization's private repositories that have Actions enabled, including the workflow content, Actions secrets and variables, and a task token with access to the private repository. The issue widens what the restricted token can reach; it gives nothing beyond what the owner's full account can already do.

Product Status

Vendor Gitea
Product Gitea
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 28.3.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • https://github.com/kimc0gi reporter
  • https://github.com/silverwind remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization CWE