The `/{username}` web route accepted personal access tokens over HTTP Basic authentication without checking their scope. A token confined to an unrelated scope, such as `read:issue`, could read its owner's private activity through the user RSS/Atom feed and the profile activity tab, and other members' activity in a private organization through the organization feed; a public-only token could list the owner's private repositories and organizations and render private profile READMEs. For a site administrator's token this applied to every account. Tokens are now accepted on this route only for feeds, which require `read:user` or `read:organization`.

Project Subscriptions

No data.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The `/{username}` web route accepted personal access tokens over HTTP Basic authentication without checking their scope. A token confined to an unrelated scope, such as `read:issue`, could read its owner's private activity through the user RSS/Atom feed and the profile activity tab, and other members' activity in a private organization through the organization feed; a public-only token could list the owner's private repositories and organizations and render private profile READMEs. For a site administrator's token this applied to every account. Tokens are now accepted on this route only for feeds, which require `read:user` or `read:organization`.
Title Gitea user and organization feed token scope bypass
Weaknesses CWE-863
References

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Gitea

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-01T09:48:57.404Z

Reserved: 2026-11-01T08:50:49.250Z

Link: CVE-2026-119625

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-11-01T10:18:36.937

Modified: 2026-11-01T10:18:37.040

Link: CVE-2026-119625

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-01T11:30:06Z

Weaknesses