GO-2026-6080 Gitea: Branch Protection Bypass via PR Retargeting Preserves Stale `official` Approval Flag in go-gitea/gitea

Gitea: Branch Protection Bypass via PR Retargeting Preserves Stale official Approval Flag in go-gitea/gitea. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. If this is causing false-positive reports from...

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.,...

PT-2026-63305

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Gitea versions prior to 1.27.0 Description Gitea fails to re-evaluate the official flag on existing pull request reviews when the target branch of a pull request is changed. An attacker with write access to a repository can obtain an official:...