CVE-2026-25038 — Gitea Open Source Git Server

What is CVE-2026-25038?

Gitea 1.26.2 allows unauthorized users to access labels of private organizations.

The record classifies CVE-2026-25038 under weakness classes CWE-200, CWE-862. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 121 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

EPSS (FIRST): 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.7% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Threadlinqs priority: 0.4/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
Published: 2026-07-03

Is CVE-2026-25038 being exploited?

No public exploitation evidence for CVE-2026-25038 is recorded in the sources Threadlinqs tracks — CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, public proof-of-concept repositories and ProjectDiscovery Nuclei — as of 2026-07-03. That is an absence of evidence in those feeds, not a guarantee that the vulnerability is unexploited.

Affected products and versions

Gitea: Open Source Git Server

How to fix CVE-2026-25038

No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-25038 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-25038

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2026-25038, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Threat Actors Mass-Probe Gitea Docker Deployments for CVE-2026-20896 Authentication Bypass Amid Exploitarium Zero-Day Leak Wave — CRITICAL · 2026-07-06

Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-07-07. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.