CVE-2026-24451

Gitea fork synchronization can expose private parent repository data

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.45 % · percentile 39 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-07-03
Updated: 2026-07-07
Assigner: Gitea
NVD status: Deferred

Description

Gitea 1.26.2 allows fork synchronization to continue after a parent repository changes from public to private, exposing data to a fork that should no longer be authorized.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

Advisories

GHSA-wrf9-r3h7-7x5v — Gitea: Fork Synchronization Continues After Parent Repository Changes from Public to Private
GO-2026-6081 — Gitea: Fork Synchronization Continues After Parent Repository Changes from Public to Private in code.gitea.io/gitea

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-41619
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-24451

Affected products

Product	Versions
Gitea · Gitea Open Source Git Server	affected 1.26.2

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