CVE-2026-97208 Gitea push mirror API bypass of DISABLE_NEW_PUSH policy

What is CVE-2026-97208?

CVE-2026-97208 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 6 Oct 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Gitea API endpoint for creating push mirrors (`POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/push_mirrors`) checked only whether mirroring was enabled and not the `[mirror] DISABLE_NEW_PUSH` setting that the web interface enforces. A repository administrator could therefore create new push mirrors on instances where the site administrator had disabled them. A push mirror pushes all refs of the repository to a remote chosen by the caller, on each commit or on a schedule.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-97208?

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

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2026-97208?

Upgrade gitea to 28.1.0 or later.

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

Is CVE-2026-97208 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97208 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
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Also known as BIT-gitea-2026-97208, GHSA-8hhh-mqpg-jpxc, MINI-mcg5-h772-2mr6, MINI-qxvq-m8f7-mxv7.