Gitea: Branch Protection Bypass via PR Retargeting Preserves Stale `official` Approval Flag in go-gitea/gitea
GO-2026-6080 · CVE-2026-58439 · GHSA-w5pg-649r-p6gg
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Description
Gitea: Branch Protection Bypass via PR Retargeting Preserves Stale official Approval Flag in go-gitea/gitea.
NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.
(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)
The additional affected modules and versions are: code.gitea.io/gitea before v1.27.0.
References
- ADVISORY https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-w5pg-649r-p6gg
- WEB https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/74ad781db9c37134ee9280c69a6b1de53801503e
- WEB https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/8401fe7c544abff1ecc49d7f3166fd4ee0c174ef
- WEB https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/38319
- WEB https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/38402
- WEB https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.27.0
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