CVE-2026-0798

Gitea Release Email Notifications Leak Private Repository Release Details After Access Revocation

At a glance

Severity: LOW 3.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 18 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-01-22
Updated: 2026-01-23
Assigner: Gitea
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Gitea may send release notification emails for private repositories to users whose access has been revoked. When a repository is changed from public to private, users who previously watched the repository may continue to receive release notifications, potentially disclosing release titles, tags, and content.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-284

Advisories

GHSA-8fwc-qjw5-rvgp — Gitea may send release notification emails for private repositories to users whose access has been revoked
GO-2026-4365 — Gitea may send release notification emails for private repositories to users whose access has been revoked in code.gitea.io/gitea

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-4270
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-0798

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:* < 1.25.4

Affected products

Product	Versions
Gitea · Gitea Open Source Git Server	affected 0 ≤ 1.25.3

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD