{"id":"CVE-2026-97208","title":"The Gitea API endpoint for creating push mirrors (`POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/push_mirrors`) checked only whether mirroring was enabled and not the `[mirror] DISABLE_NEW_PUSH` setting that the web interface enforces","summary":"The Gitea API endpoint for creating push mirrors (`POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/push_mirrors`) checked only whether mirroring was enabled and not the `[mirror] DISABLE_NEW_PUSH` setting that the web interface enforces. A repository …","severity":"medium","cvss":4.9,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","cwe":["CWE-863"],"vendor":"gitea","product":"gitea","affected":["gitea < 28.1.0"],"patched":["gitea 28.1.0"],"published":"2026-10-06","updated":"2026-10-13","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-13T17:56:32.037","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97208","references":[{"url":"https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.1.0/","label":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39501","label":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39507","label":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.1.0","label":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-8hhh-mqpg-jpxc","label":"88ee5874-cf24-4952-aea0-31affedb7ff2"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.00261,"epssPercentile":0.17806,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-10-07T20:04:45.452755Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-10-06T22:23:15.972Z","slug":"CVE-2026-97208","body":"## Overview\n\nThe Gitea API endpoint for creating push mirrors (`POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/push_mirrors`) checked only whether mirroring was enabled and not the `[mirror] DISABLE_NEW_PUSH` setting that the web interface enforces. A repository administrator could therefore create new push mirrors on instances where the site administrator had disabled them. A push mirror pushes all refs of the repository to a remote chosen by the caller, on each commit or on a schedule.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `gitea < 28.1.0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `gitea 28.1.0`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":27,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":27,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":217763,"id":"CVE-2026-97208","ts":1791406437244,"field":"cvss","old":null,"new":"4.9"},{"seq":217762,"id":"CVE-2026-97208","ts":1791406437244,"field":"severity","old":"none","new":"medium"}]}