CVE-2026-20750
Gitea does not properly validate project ownership in organization project operations.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Gitea does not properly validate project ownership in organization project operations. A user with project write access in one organization may be able to modify projects belonging to a different organization.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.43% probability · 37th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-284
- Affected
- gitea/gitea
- Source
- 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2
EPSS 0.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.4/Release Notes
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36318Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36373Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.4Release Notes
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-h4fh-pc4w-8w27Broken Link
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-20750
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2432216
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-20750.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.