CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-116289

Low risk· EPSS 10%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

Gitea did not reject personal access tokens restricted to public resources (`public-only`) on the organization Actions runner registration-token endpoint, and the runner registered with the resulting token was not limited to public repositories. Holding only such a token with `write:organization` belonging to an owner of a public organization, an attacker could register an organization-level runner and receive jobs of the organization's private repositories with Actions enabled, including workflow content, Actions secrets and variables, and a task token with access to the private repository.

Risk Assessment

Actions secrets and workflow content may leak and access to the organization's private repositories may be gained.

Recommendation

Update Gitea to a version rejecting public-only tokens on the runner registration endpoint and review registered organization runners.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Gitea did not reject personal access tokens restricted to public resources (`public-only`) on the organization Actions runner registration-token endpoint, and the runner registered with the resulting token was not limited to public repositories. Holding only such a token with `write:organization` that belongs to an owner of a public organization, an attacker could register an organization-level runner and receive jobs of the organization's private repositories that have Actions enabled, including the workflow content, Actions secrets and variables, and a task token with access to the private repository. The issue widens what the restricted token can reach; it gives nothing beyond what the owner's full account can already do.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS