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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-20904 BIT-gitea-2026-20904EUVD-2026-4262GHSA-jrpc-w85r-hgqxGHSA-qqgv-v353-cv8pGO-2026-4369

Gitea: Broken access control in OpenID visibility toggle enables cross-user visibility changes

Published Jan 22, 2026 · Updated Jan 23, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

Description

Gitea does not properly validate ownership when toggling OpenID URI visibility. An authenticated user may be able to change the visibility settings of other users' OpenID identities.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Gitea Gitea Open Source Git Server ≤ 1.25.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260205T172317-150000.1.146.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0403-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go code.gitea.io/gitea < 1.25.4 1.25.4 GO-2026-4369
Go github.com/go-gitea/gitea < 1.25.4 1.25.4 GHSA-qqgv-v353-cv8p

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