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Vulnerability advisory

BIT-gitea-2026-20888

Gitea Pull Requests Auto-Merge: Read-Only Users Can Cancel Scheduled Auto-Merge via Web Endpoint (Authorization Bypass)

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Also known as CVE-2026-20888GHSA-9cgq-wp42-4rpqGHSA-ccq9-c5hv-cf64GO-2026-4366

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

gitea Bitnami

AffectedFixed in
All versions before 1.25.41.25.4

Severity for this package

  • CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Description

Gitea does not properly verify authorization when canceling scheduled auto-merges via the web interface. A user with read access to pull requests may be able to cancel auto-merges scheduled by other users.

References

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