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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2025-68944 json

Gitea sometimes mishandles propagation of token scope for access control within one of its own package registries

published 2025-12-26 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-13 27 d ago also BIT-gitea-2025-68944 , EUVD-2025-205415 , GHSA-f85h-c7m6-cfpm , GO-2025-4264

cvss
5.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Gitea before 1.22.2 sometimes mishandles the propagation of token scope for access control within one of its own package registries.

Patch / fix

  • go code.gitea.io/gitea 1.22.2
  • bitnami gitea 1.22.2
  • Gitea Gitea 1.22.2
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20251230T014957-150000.1.134.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0037-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68944 updated cvss 5.0

gitea: Gitea: Access control bypass in package registries

  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-cli-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-watcher-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-webhook-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-controller-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-cli-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-watcher-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-webhook-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-controller-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
10 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go code.gitea.io/gitea
<1.22.2
1.22.2
bitnami gitea
<1.22.2
1.22.2

Affected products

  • Gitea Gitea

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-441 Unintended Proxy or Intermediary

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.