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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-79960 EUVD-2026-93918

Gitea deploy key pushes acting as the repository owner

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 7, 2026 · Assigned by Gitea

Description

When a push was authenticated with a deploy key, Gitea recorded the repository owner as the pusher, so permission checks in the push hook pipeline evaluated the owner instead of the deploy key. A holder of a writable deploy key could create protected tags without being on the tag allow list and change repository visibility through push options, for example making a private repository public. Pull requests created through the AGit flow with a deploy key were also attributed to the owner.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Gitea Gitea ≤ 1.27.3 —

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