CVE-2026-79960

UNKNOWN 0.0

Gitea deploy key pushes acting as the repository owner

CVSS Score

0.0

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-863
Vendor	gitea
Product	gitea
Published	Oct 6, 2026

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Affected Versions

Gitea / Gitea

0 ≤ 1.27.3

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-7769-9pr9-m24h github.com: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/37306 blog.gitea.com: https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/ github.com: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0

Credits

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