CVE-2026-20897: Gitea

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Gitea does not properly validate repository ownership when deleting Git LFS locks. A user with write access to one repository may be able to delete LFS locks belonging to other repositories.

Affected products

• Gitea Gitea: before 1.25.4 (fixed in 1.25.4)

Published 2026-01-22. Last modified 2026-07-15.