CVE-2026-26231
An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in Gitea to potentially gain elevated privileges, bypass security measures, or manipulate and disclose data.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in Gitea to potentially gain elevated privileges, bypass security measures, or manipulate and disclose data.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of Gitea are affected by these vulnerabilities.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to the potential for privilege escalation and data manipulation.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of Gitea to mitigate these vulnerabilities.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.29% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 21% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] Gitea: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-06
- highCVE-2026-26231: Gitea versions up to and including 1.26.1 allow the Allow edits from maintainers permission pa…nvd · 2026-07-03
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