{"id":"CVE-2026-79960","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-79960","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:02:15.367Z","title":"A holder of a writable deploy key could create protected tags without being on the tag allow list and change repository visibility through push options, for example making a private repository public.","description":"When a push was authenticated with a deploy key, Gitea recorded the repository owner as the pusher, so permission checks in the push hook pipeline evaluated the owner instead of the deploy key. A holder of a writable deploy key could create protected tags without being on the tag allow list and change repository visibility through push options, for example making a private repository public. Pull requests created through the AGit flow with a deploy key were also attributed to the owner.","published":"2026-10-06T20:17:34.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-13T16:51:21.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":["gitea/gitea"],"epss":{"score":0.00212,"percentile":0.11375,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-07","score":0.00148,"percentile":0.03493}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-10-07T15:45:07.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"7.1","severity":"HIGH","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 7.1 HIGH."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-06T20:17:34.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-06T20:17:33.660Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/37306","tags":["Patch"],"source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-7769-9pr9-m24h","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79960","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."}