🛡️ CVE-2025-68939 — gitea

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-68939 is classified as CWE-424: Improper Protection of Alternate Path. The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.

Affected software

CVE-2025-68939 is recorded against 2 packages.

• code.gitea.io/gitea
• gitea

Timeline and source

Published on 26 December 2025 and last revised on 19 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
blog.gitea.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

code.gitea.io/gitea has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-25038 (8.0 High, published 27 Jul 2026)
• GO-2026-6074 (published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-58423 (8.0 High, published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-20779 (8.0 High, published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-27775 (8.0 High, published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-58422 (8.0 High, published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-27761 (published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-28740 (published 22 Jul 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-424: Improper Protection of Alternate Path) in other software:

• CVE-2026-58428 (6.5 Medium, published 13 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-66756 (9.8 Critical, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-54423 (8.2 High, published 10 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-0268 (4.4 Medium, published 10 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-0237 (7.8 High, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-4913 (5.7 Medium, published 14 Apr 2026)
• CVE-2026-4270 (5.5 Medium, published 16 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-4617 (published 14 Nov 2025)

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