CVE-2026-79960: Gitea

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Gitea Gitea: up to and including 1.27.3

Published 2026-10-06. Last modified 2026-10-07.