{"id":"CVE-2026-68957","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-68957","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:27:15.565Z","title":"Gitea's API and web issue-search paths do not treat restricted accounts as anonymous viewers when evaluating Limited-visibility repository owners.","description":"Gitea's API and web issue-search paths do not treat restricted accounts as anonymous viewers when evaluating Limited-visibility repository owners. A restricted user can search and retrieve issue titles and bodies that should be hidden by the owner's visibility policy. Keyword matching can also reveal that hidden issue content or comments contain a supplied term.","published":"2026-10-14T15:17:22.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-14T16:17:51.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-284"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00403,"percentile":0.34347,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-15","score":0.00403,"percentile":0.32905}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-14T17:45:19.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"4.3","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 4.3 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-14T15:17:22.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-14T15:17:22.063Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 4.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.27.3/","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39004","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39039","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.27.3","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-wg93-gp4m-c6vr","source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68957","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}