Gitea versions up to and including 1.26.1 allow OAuth2 access token scope enforcement to be bypassed through HTTP Basic authentication.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Public exploits 1
- Alardiians/gitea-CVE-2026-28699 PoC on GitHub
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.1NVD modified 2026-10-25 15:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.