CVE-2025-68938 Gitea mishandles authorization for deletion of releases

What is CVE-2025-68938?

CVE-2025-68938 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 26 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gitea before 1.25.2 mishandles authorization for deletion of releases.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68938?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including code.gitea.io/gitea and gitea. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2025-68938?

Upgrade code.gitea.io/gitea to 1.25.2 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2025-68938 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68938 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Gitea Gitea

• CVE-2026-60004 Gitea Code Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-73278 Gitea WebAuthn bypass during OAuth and OIDC sign-in Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-94205 Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through maintainer-triggered events Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-42968 Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-45330 Improper Privilege Management in Gitea Critical 9.8

All Gitea Gitea vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-gitea-2025-68938, GHSA-cm54-pfmc-xrwx, GO-2025-4258.