CVE-2026-58439

A flaw was found in Gitea. This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass branch protection by retargeting a Pull Request PR that has a stale 'official' approval flag. This could lead to unauthorized code being merged into a protected branch, compromising code integrity. Mitigation Mitigation fo...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization through changing a pull request's target branch without re-evaluating the official approval status on existing reviews. An attacker can bypass branch protection requirements and merge code into protected branches...

GHSA-W5PG-649R-P6GG Gitea: Branch Protection Bypass via PR Retargeting Preserves Stale `official` Approval Flag

Summary Gitea does not re-evaluate the official flag on existing pull request reviews when a PR's target branch is changed. An attacker with write access to a repository can obtain an official: true approval on a PR targeting an unprotected branch, then retarget the PR to a protected branch e.g.,...

Gitea: Branch Protection Bypass via PR Retargeting Preserves Stale `official` Approval Flag

Summary Gitea does not re-evaluate the official flag on existing pull request reviews when a PR's target branch is changed. An attacker with write access to a repository can obtain an official: true approval on a PR targeting an unprotected branch, then retarget the PR to a protected branch e.g.,...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization through changing a pull request's target branch without re-evaluating the official approval status on existing reviews. An attacker can bypass branch protection requirements and merge code into protected branches...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization due to improper error handling in the pre-receive process when processing input with bufio.Scanner. An attacker can bypass branch-protection checks by submitting oversized input that triggers scanner errors...