CVE-2026-116289
Severity not reportedGitea did not reject personal access tokens restricted to public resources (`public-only`) on the organization Actions runner registration-token endpoint, and…
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.
Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0/ 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39690 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39853 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-qcgm-ggp8-22qc 88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2

