---
id: CVE-2026-116296
title: 'Gitea archived repository release, milestone and label modification'
summary: >-
  The API routes for releases, release assets, milestones and repository labels
  did not reject changes to archived repositories. A user with write access to
  an archived repository, or a holder of such a user's write-scoped token, could
  rep…
severity: none
cwe:
  - CWE-862
vendor: Gitea
product: gitea.dev
affected:
  - gitea.dev < 28.3.0
exploitAvailable: true
published: '2026-11-01'
updated: '2026-11-01'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-01T12:35:34.671Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116296'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-6h2f-c8jm-84hc'
    label: GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-6h2f-c8jm-84hc
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39942'
    label: 'Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39942'
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/40085'
    label: 'Fix backport to release/v28: go-gitea/gitea pull request #40085'
  - url: 'https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0/'
    label: Gitea 28.3.0 release announcement
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0'
    label: go-gitea/gitea v28.3.0 release
tags:
  - cve.org
  - exploit-available
epss: 0.00266
epssPercentile: 0.18659
exploits:
  github: 1
  githubRepos:
    - 'https://github.com/thalewalan/CVE-2026-116296'
  checkedAt: '2026-11-05T18:29:26.740Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T18:28:50.720Z'
---

## Overview

The API routes for releases, release assets, milestones and repository labels did not reject changes to archived repositories. A user with write access to an archived repository, or a holder of such a user's write-scoped token, could replace or delete release assets while keeping their download URLs, delete releases and tags, and create, edit or delete milestones and labels of a repository that is meant to be read-only. Changing requests on these routes now return 423 Locked for archived repositories.

## Affected

- `gitea.dev < 28.3.0`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.