GHSA-393c-qgvj-3xph

Gitea does not properly validate repository ownership when deleting Git LFS locks

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-20897

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/go-gitea/gitea	< 1.25.4	1.25.4

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Gitea does not properly validate repository ownership when deleting Git LFS locks. A user with write access to one repository may be able to delete LFS locks belonging to other repositories.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20897 advisory
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36344 web
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36349 web
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/da036f3f35ca830b22cf4480912ed261303b798f web
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.25.4 web
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea package
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.25.4 web