---
id: CVE-2026-119627
title: Gitea limited-visibility profile disclosure with public-only tokens
summary: >-
  The web profile and RSS/Atom feed routes of users and organizations checked
  only whether a signed-in viewer could see a limited-visibility owner, without
  considering the `public-only` restriction of the personal access token used to
  auth…
severity: none
cwe:
  - CWE-1220
vendor: Gitea
product: gitea.dev
affected:
  - gitea.dev < 28.3.0
published: '2026-11-01'
updated: '2026-11-01'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-01T09:48:58.988Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119627'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-5j4v-rwqr-vpq7'
    label: GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-5j4v-rwqr-vpq7
  - 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://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: 0.00199
epssPercentile: 0.09816
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T18:28:50.718Z'
---

## Overview

The web profile and RSS/Atom feed routes of users and organizations checked only whether a signed-in viewer could see a limited-visibility owner, without considering the `public-only` restriction of the personal access token used to authenticate. Any user holding a public-only token could send it over HTTP Basic authentication to read the profile and activity feed of limited-visibility users and organizations, which are hidden from anonymous visitors and refused on the equivalent API routes. The disclosure covers existence, profile metadata and public activity; it does not grant write access.

## Affected

- `gitea.dev < 28.3.0`

## Remediation

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