Gitea limited-visibility profile disclosure with public-only tokens

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-119627
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerGitea
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-11-01 10:18:37 UTC
Updated2026-11-01 10:18:37 UTC
DescriptionThe web profile and RSS/Atom feed routes of users and organizations checked only whether a signed-in viewer could see a limited-visibility owner, without considering the `public-only` restriction of the personal access token used to authenticate. Any user holding a public-only token could send it over HTTP Basic authentication to read the profile and activity feed of limited-visibility users and organizations, which are hidden from anonymous visitors and refused on the equivalent API routes. The disclosure covers existence, profile metadata and public activity; it does not grant write access.

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.001990000 probability, percentile 0.097270000 (date 2026-11-02)

Problem Types: CWE-1220 | CWE-1220 CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Gitea Gitea affected 28.3.0 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39690 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2 github.com
blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2 blog.gitea.com
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39853 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2 github.com
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-5j4v-rwqr-vpq7 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2 github.com
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/40115 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2 github.com
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2 github.com
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39945 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2 github.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: https://github.com/manus-pi (en)

CNA: https://github.com/silverwind (en)

CNA: https://github.com/bircni (en)

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