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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2026-22555 json

Gitea organization forks can expose organization secrets without create permission

published 2026-06-17 4 mo ago modified 2026-10-25 15 d ago also GHSA-fhx7-m96w-mv29 , GO-2026-5365 , EUVD-2026-41617

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Gitea versions before 1.26.0 allow API users to fork a repository into an organization without first passing the CanCreateOrgRepo check, which can expose organization secrets.

Patch / fix

  • go code.gitea.io/gitea 1.26.0
  • Gitea Gitea Open Source Git Server 1.26.0
  • 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-2026-22555 updated cvss 8.1

code.gitea.io/gitea: Gitea: Organization Secret Exfiltration via API Fork Missing Authorization Check

  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines-client, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-opc-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-cli-tkn-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-cli-rhel9, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-pipelines-as-code-watcher-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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-fhx7-m96w-mv29 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go code.gitea.io/gitea
<1.26.0
1.26.0

Affected products

  • Gitea Gitea Open Source Git Server

Classification

Weakness

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.