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Medium · 6.5 Public exploit CVE-2026-116296 EUVD-2026-114795

Gitea archived repository release, milestone and label modification

Published Nov 1, 2026 · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

Vendor: Gitea Product: Gitea

Description

The API routes for releases, release assets, milestones and repository labels did not reject changes to archived repositories. A user with write access to an archived repository, or a holder of such a user's write-scoped token, could replace or delete release assets while keeping their download URLs, delete releases and tags, and create, edit or delete milestones and labels of a repository that is meant to be read-only. Changing requests on these routes now return 423 Locked for archived repositories.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Gitea Gitea < 28.3.0 28.3.0

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • thalewalan/CVE-2026-116296 ★ 1 · Nov 1, 2026

    Gitea archived repository write-protection bypass — milestones, releases and labels unprotected (CVE-2026-116296)

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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