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{"bugzilla": {"description": "code.gitea.io/gitea: Gitea: Privilege escalation via unenforced token restrictions on admin API endpoints", "id": "2564534", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2564534"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.2", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-267", "details": ["The `/api/v1/admin` route group did not enforce the `public-only` restriction of personal access tokens. A public-only token with admin scope issued by a site administrator could therefore list private organizations and the email addresses of all users, create organizations, obtain runner registration tokens and create new site administrator accounts, the last of which persists after the token is revoked. Tokens of users who are not site administrators cannot reach these routes; public-only tokens are now rejected on the admin API.", "A flaw was found in Gitea. The administrative application programming interface (API) does not properly enforce public-only restrictions on personal access tokens. An authenticated attacker possessing a restricted administrator token can bypass these limitations to perform unauthorized administrative operations. This can lead to privilege escalation, enabling the attacker to create persistent administrator accounts, access private organization data, and disclose user email addresses."], "name": "CVE-2026-117635", "public_date": "2026-11-01T09:48:40Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-117635\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-117635\nhttps://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0/\nhttps://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39690\nhttps://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39853\nhttps://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0\nhttps://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-37xv-m4w7-j2fh"], "statement": "Red Hat has evaluated this vulnerability as an Important severity issue because a compromised or intentionally restricted administrative credential can be leveraged remotely to achieve full instance control without further authorization. Exploitation requires high privileges as a prerequisite, specifically an existing site administrator token configured with constrained visibility scopes, meaning standard unprivileged users cannot reach these administrative endpoints. In Red Hat environments incorporating Gitea integration components, the impact applies primarily where instances host administrative routes, whereas standard pipeline integration workloads do not expose the vulnerable endpoint handlers.", "threat_severity": "Important"}

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