5.3

CVE-2025-68940: gitea Incorrect Authorization

Analyzed
AliasesGHSA-rrcw-5rjv-vj26BIT-gitea-2025-68940GO-2025-4267
Published 26-12-2025Last modified 26-12-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68940 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in gitea. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1SUSE-SU-2026:0037-1

Timeline

  1. 26-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Gitea before 1.22.5, branch deletion permissions are not adequately enforced after merging a pull request.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

19%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.27% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Code.gitea.io1 product
  • gitea< 1.22.5
Gitea1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

7 links