CVE-2026-118395
Gitea 1.27.3 stopped personal access tokens restricted to public resources (`public-only`) from…
- Risk score
- 51/100
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 1 Nov 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Gitea 1.27.3 stopped personal access tokens restricted to public resources (public-only) from creating repositories through POST /api/v1/user/repos and POST /api/v1/repos/migrate, but POST /api/v1/org/{org}/repos, POST /api/v1/orgs/{org}/repos, POST /api/v1/orgs and POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/generate still acc…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.5 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
Original description
Gitea 1.27.3 stopped personal access tokens restricted to public resources (`public-only`) from creating repositories through `POST /api/v1/user/repos` and `POST /api/v1/repos/migrate`, but `POST /api/v1/org/{org}/repos`, `POST /api/v1/orgs/{org}/repos`, `POST /api/v1/orgs` and `POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/generate` still accepted such tokens. A holder of a public-only token with the needed write scopes could create private repositories in organizations where the token's owner may create repositories, create private organizations, and generate private repositories from templates. The token still could not read the private repositories it created.
Last activity 1 Nov 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.