CVE-2026-97859mediumCWE-862

CVE-2026-97859: medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea

Gitea API disclosure of private user social graph, keys and stars

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33Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 6.5epss 0.3%
from disclosure to weapon3 days
Published on NVDOct 18
1st PoC+3d
Seven Gitea API routes under `/api/v1/users/{username}` (followers, following, following/{target}, starred, subscriptions, keys and gpg_keys) were registered without the `individualPermsChecker` middleware that enforces the visibility of the target user. An authenticated user could therefore read the followers, following list, starred and watched repositories and public SSH and GPG keys of a user with limited or private visibility, whom they could not otherwise see. The issue was fixed in 1.27.3 and 28.0.0 and disclosed with 28.2.0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Gitea · Gitea
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