Auth bypass in Gitea Open Source Git Server

CVE-2026-27775

Gitea 1.25.5 caches a branch-specific write-permission result across multiple refs in one pre-receive hook session, allowing a per-branch maintainer-edit grant to be reused for other refs and escalate to full repository write access.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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