Medium 6.5Published Jan 22, 2026

CVE-2026-20904Gitea: Broken access control in OpenID visibility toggle enables cross-user visibility changes

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 5:50 AM ET)

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Gitea does not properly validate ownership when toggling OpenID URI visibility. An authenticated user may be able to change the visibility settings of other users' OpenID identities.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-284, CWE-639
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Gitea
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jan 23, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Gitea Gitea Open Source Git Server gitea:open_source_git_server (from the name)	through 1.25.3	CNA record
gitea gitea gitea:gitea	before 1.25.4	NVD

References

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-jrpc-w85r-hgqxvendor-advisory, broken-link
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36346patch, issue-tracking
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36361patch, issue-tracking
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.4release-notes
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.4/release-notes

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