The web profile and RSS/Atom feed routes of users and organizations checked only whether a signed-in viewer could see a limited-visibility owner, without considering the `public-only` restriction of the personal access token used to authenticate. Any user holding a public-only token could send it over HTTP Basic authentication to read the profile and activity feed of limited-visibility users and organizations, which are hidden from anonymous visitors and refused on the equivalent API routes. The disclosure covers existence, profile metadata and public activity; it does not grant write access.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39690 patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39853 patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39945 patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/40115 patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenunscored · giteaNVD modified 2026-11-01 09:48
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-5j4v-rwqr-vpq7 vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39690 patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39853 patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39945 patch
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/40115 patch
- https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0/ release-notes
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0 release-notes