Gitea mishandles access to a private resource upon receiving an API token with scope limited to public resources

MEDIUM 5.3CVE-2025-68941 · BIT-gitea-2025-68941 · GHSA-xfq3-qj7j-4565 · Published 26/12/2025 · updated 13/10/2026

In short

CVE-2025-68941 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability affecting code.gitea.io/gitea, gitea (gitea).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.26%, higher than 18.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.22.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
code.gitea.io/gitea Go	`< 1.22.3`	`1.22.3`
gitea gitea	`< 1.22.3`	`1.22.3`

Gitea before 1.22.3 mishandles access to a private resource upon receiving an API token with scope limited to public resources.

NVD description

Gitea before 1.22.3 mishandles access to a private resource upon receiving an API token with scope limited to public resources.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 1.22.3

1.22.3

< 1.22.3

1.22.3

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