CVE-2026-22555 PUBLISHED

Gitea organization forks can expose organization secrets without create permission

Assigner: Gitea
Reserved: 03.03.2026 Published: 03.07.2026 Updated: 03.07.2026

Gitea versions before 1.26.0 allow API users to fork a repository into an organization without first passing the CanCreateOrgRepo check, which can expose organization secrets.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.1

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Gitea
Product	Gitea Open Source Git Server
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 1.26.0 (excl.)

Credits

andrejtomci reporter

References

GitHub Security Advisory
GitHub Pull Request #36950
Gitea v1.26.0 Release
Gitea v1.26.0 Release Blog Post

Problem Types

CWE-284 CWE