CVE-2026-94205Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through maintainer-triggered events
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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.36%, higher than 28% of scored CVEs.
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Gitea Actions decided whether a fork pull request run needed approval based on the user who triggered the event rather than the pull request author. For `pull_request` activity triggered by a maintainer during ordinary triage, such as adding a label, the run was created without requiring approval, while the workflow definition was still taken from the fork head. Where Actions is enabled and a matching runner is registered, fork-controlled workflow code could run on the base repository's runners without an explicit approval.
- CVSS
- 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-441, CWE-863
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 0.36% (percentile 28)
- Assigned by
- Gitea
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 7, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Gitea Gitea gitea:gitea (from the name) | through 1.27.3 | CNA record |
gitea gitea gitea:gitea | before 28.0.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-xh39-mxw9-34ppvendor-advisory, exploit, mitigation
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39399patch
- https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/release-notes
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0release-notes
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