CVE-2025-68938 - OpenCVE

Gitea before 1.25.2 mishandles authorization for deletion of releases.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitea	Gitea

No data.

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.2/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36002/commits/d4262131b39899d9e9ee5caa2635c810d476e43f#diff-8962bac89952027d50fa51f31f59d65bedb4c02bde0265eced5cf256cbed306d
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.2
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68938
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68938

History

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		gitea: incorrect authorization for deletion of releases
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68938 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68938
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	threat_severity `Moderate`

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Gitea before 1.25.2 mishandles authorization for deletion of releases.
First Time appeared		Gitea Gitea gitea
Weaknesses		CWE-863
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitea Gitea gitea
References		https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.2/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36002/commits/d4262131b39899d9e9ee5caa2635c810d476e43f#diff-8962bac89952027d50fa51f31f59d65bedb4c02bde0265eced5cf256cbed306d https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.2
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2025-12-26T01:19:10.609Z

Updated: 2025-12-26T18:53:35.494Z

Reserved: 2025-12-26T01:19:10.331Z

Link: CVE-2025-68938

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-26T14:42:23.265Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-26T02:15:42.870

Modified: 2025-12-26T02:15:42.870

Link: CVE-2025-68938

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-12-26T01:19:10Z

Links: CVE-2025-68938 - Bugzilla

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