CVE-2025-68941 - OpenCVE

Gitea before 1.22.3 mishandles access to a private resource upon receiving an API token with scope limited to public resources.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

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-1.22.3/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/32218
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.22.3
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68941
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68941

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		gitea: Gitea: Unauthorized access to private resources via public-scoped API tokens
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68941 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68941
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	threat_severity `Moderate`

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Gitea before 1.22.3 mishandles access to a private resource upon receiving an API token with scope limited to public resources.
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-1.22.3/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/32218 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.22.3
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2025-12-26T02:31:59.031Z

Updated: 2025-12-26T19:31:33.303Z

Reserved: 2025-12-26T02:31:58.775Z

Link: CVE-2025-68941

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-26T19:31:30.258Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-26T03:15:50.967

Modified: 2025-12-26T03:15:50.967

Link: CVE-2025-68941

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-12-26T02:31:59Z

Links: CVE-2025-68941 - Bugzilla

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