---
id: CVE-2026-119625
title: Gitea user and organization feed token scope bypass
summary: >-
  The `/{username}` web route accepted personal access tokens over HTTP Basic
  authentication without checking their scope. A token confined to an unrelated
  scope, such as `read:issue`, could read its owner's private activity through
  the us…
severity: none
cwe:
  - CWE-863
vendor: Gitea
product: gitea.dev
affected:
  - gitea.dev < 28.3.0
published: '2026-11-01'
updated: '2026-11-01'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-01T09:48:57.404Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119625'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-3fv3-hhmm-4x2q'
    label: GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-3fv3-hhmm-4x2q
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39945'
    label: 'Fix: go-gitea/gitea pull request #39945'
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/40115'
    label: 'Fix backport to release/v28: go-gitea/gitea pull request #40115'
  - 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: 0.00194
epssPercentile: 0.09163
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T18:28:50.711Z'
---

## Overview

The `/{username}` web route accepted personal access tokens over HTTP Basic authentication without checking their scope. A token confined to an unrelated scope, such as `read:issue`, could read its owner's private activity through the user RSS/Atom feed and the profile activity tab, and other members' activity in a private organization through the organization feed; a public-only token could list the owner's private repositories and organizations and render private profile READMEs. For a site administrator's token this applied to every account. Tokens are now accepted on this route only for feeds, which require `read:user` or `read:organization`.

## Affected

- `gitea.dev < 28.3.0`

## Remediation

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