Gitea up to 1.27.3 Actions authorization

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Gitea up to 1.27.3. This affects an unknown part of the component Actions. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-94205. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Gitea up to 1.27.3. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Actions. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Gitea Actions decided whether a fork pull request run needed approval based on the user who triggered the event rather than the pull request author. For `pull_request` activity triggered by a maintainer during ordinary triage, such as adding a label, the run was created without requiring approval, while the workflow definition was still taken from the fork head. Where Actions is enabled and a matching runner is registered, fork-controlled workflow code could run on the base repository's runners without an explicit approval.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-94205 since 10/04/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/06/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Gitea

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• 1.27.0
• 1.27.1
• 1.27.2
• 1.27.3

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• open-source

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