Gitea mishandles authorization for deletion of releases

MEDIUM 5.3CVE-2025-68938 · BIT-gitea-2025-68938 · GHSA-cm54-pfmc-xrwx · Published 26/12/2025 · updated 13/10/2026

In short

CVE-2025-68938 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability affecting code.gitea.io/gitea, gitea (gitea).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.38%, higher than 32.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.25.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
code.gitea.io/gitea Go	`< 1.25.2`	`1.25.2`
gitea gitea	`< 1.25.2`	`1.25.2`

Gitea before 1.25.2 mishandles authorization for deletion of releases.

NVD description

Gitea before 1.25.2 mishandles authorization for deletion of releases.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 1.25.2

1.25.2

< 1.25.2

1.25.2

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