What is CVE-2025-68944?

CVE-2025-68944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Unintended Proxy or Intermediary (Confused Deputy). CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2025-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2025-68944?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Gitea

CVE-2025-68944

Gitea before 1.22.2 sometimes mishandles the propagation of token scope for access control within one of its own package registries.

Published 2025-12-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (18.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 18th percentile — 18.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Gitea — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-441 — Unintended Proxy or Intermediary (Confused Deputy)

References

blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.22.2/ (Release Notes)
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.22.2 (Release Notes)
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/31967 (Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68944?: CVE-2025-68944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Unintended Proxy or Intermediary (Confused Deputy). CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2025-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2025-68944?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.