CVE-2026-26231 PUBLISHED

Gitea maintainer-edit permissions allow unauthorized commits to readable repositories

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

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Changed
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
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 1.26.1 (incl.)

Credits

ddd reporter

References

GitHub Security Advisory
GitHub Pull Request #37479
GitHub Pull Request #37484
Gitea v1.26.2 Release
Gitea v1.26.2 Release Blog Post

Problem Types

CWE-863 CWE