Authorization Flaw in Gitea Affects Release Deletion
CVE-2025-68938

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Gitea

Status
Gitea
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 December 2025

What is CVE-2025-68938?

Gitea, a popular self-hosted Git service, has an authorization flaw in versions prior to 1.25.2 that allows unauthorized users to delete releases. This mishandling of authorization can compromise the integrity of the releases and potentially disrupt the project's version management. An update to version 1.25.2 addresses this issue, ensuring that proper authorization checks are in place.

Affected Version(s)

Gitea 0 < 1.25.2

References

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.2/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.2
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36002/commits/d426...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2025-68938 : Authorization Flaw in Gitea Affects Release Deletion