CVE-2026-78433
Gitea's web attachment handler skips its cross-repository ownership check for attachments created…
- Risk score
- 41/100
- CVSS
- 5.9 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 14 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Gitea's web attachment handler skips its cross-repository ownership check for attachments created before 16 January 2026 and checks permissions against the repository named in the request URL instead. An unauthenticated attacker who knows a private attachment's UUID can request it through a public repository's attachm…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 5.9 medium
References
Original description
Gitea's web attachment handler skips its cross-repository ownership check for attachments created before 16 January 2026 and checks permissions against the repository named in the request URL instead. An unauthenticated attacker who knows a private attachment's UUID can request it through a public repository's attachment path and retrieve its contents. This can expose issue and pull request attachments or release assets; the random attachment UUID must already be known to the attacker.
Last activity 14 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.