The API routes for releases, release assets, milestones and repository labels did not reject changes to archived repositories. A user with write access to an archived repository, or a holder of such a user's write-scoped token, could replace or delete release assets while keeping their download URLs, delete releases and tags, and create, edit or delete milestones and labels of a repository that is meant to be read-only. Changing requests on these routes now return 423 Locked for archived repositories.
History

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The API routes for releases, release assets, milestones and repository labels did not reject changes to archived repositories. A user with write access to an archived repository, or a holder of such a user's write-scoped token, could replace or delete release assets while keeping their download URLs, delete releases and tags, and create, edit or delete milestones and labels of a repository that is meant to be read-only. Changing requests on these routes now return 423 Locked for archived repositories.
Title Gitea archived repository release, milestone and label modification
Weaknesses CWE-862
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Gitea

Published: 2026-11-01T09:48:37.020Z

Updated: 2026-11-01T09:48:37.020Z

Reserved: 2026-11-01T08:48:41.160Z

Link: CVE-2026-116296

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-11-01T10:18:35.020

Modified: 2026-11-01T10:18:35.130

Link: CVE-2026-116296

cve-icon Redhat

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