Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-2vgv-hgv4-22mh

Gitea improperly exposes issue and pull request titles

Published Jan 23, 2026Updated Feb 3, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-gitea-2026-20800CVE-2026-20800GHSA-g54m-9f6g-wj7qGO-2026-4362

Severity

CVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected versions

github.com/go-gitea/gitea Go

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.25.4	`1.25.4`

Description

Gitea's notification API does not re-validate repository access permissions when returning notification details. After a user's access to a private repository is revoked, they may still view issue and pull request titles through previously received notifications.

References

Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20800 ↗
Webgithub.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36339 ↗
Webgithub.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/67e75f30a83d2523cedc37ad7b03bcba66947833 ↗
Webblog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.4 ↗
Packagegithub.com/go-gitea/gitea ↗
Webgithub.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.4 ↗