---
id: CVE-2026-117646
title: Gitea private repository listing to public-only tokens on profiles
summary: >-
  The repositories, stars and watching tabs of user profiles and the repository
  list of organization home pages included private repositories for every
  signed-in request without checking whether the request used a personal access
  token res…
severity: none
vendor: Gitea
product: gitea.dev
affected:
  - gitea.dev < 28.3.0
published: '2026-11-01'
updated: '2026-11-01'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-01T09:48:42.012Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-117646'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-wxcq-p34j-7cjj'
    label: GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-wxcq-p34j-7cjj
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39690'
    label: 'Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39690'
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39853'
    label: 'Fix backport to release/v28: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39853'
  - 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
epss: 0.00157
epssPercentile: 0.04849
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T18:28:50.705Z'
---

## Overview

The repositories, stars and watching tabs of user profiles and the repository list of organization home pages included private repositories for every signed-in request without checking whether the request used a personal access token restricted to public resources (`public-only`). A holder of such a token could list the private repositories visible to the token's owner, and that user's stars and watches of private repositories. The API and the profile activity tab already applied the restriction. The impact is disclosure of repository names and metadata, not of repository content.

## Affected

- `gitea.dev < 28.3.0`

## Remediation

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