CVE-2026-89182 Gitea push-to-create bypass of FORCE_PRIVATE policy

What is CVE-2026-89182?

CVE-2026-89182 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 6 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

With `[repository] FORCE_PRIVATE = true`, Gitea creates new repositories as private, but the post-receive hook still applied the `repo.private=false` push option to an empty repository created by push. Any user who can create repositories could make their new repository public in violation of the instance policy. The default configuration is not affected.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-89182?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitea. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2026-89182?

Upgrade gitea to 28.1.0 or later.

Is CVE-2026-89182 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-89182 exists.

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-2026-89182, GHSA-fx95-gwfc-grgc, MINI-m49g-5gp8-whmv, MINI-q7w6-pfm4-w84f.