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CVE-2025-68938

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

Gitea before 1.25.2 mishandles authorization for deletion of releases.

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CVE-2025-68938

CVE-2025-68938:

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Technical Details

Package Name	Ecosystem	Vulnerable Versions	First Patched Version
code.gitea.io/gitea	go	< 1.25.2	1.25.2

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Root Cause Analysis

The analysis of the vulnerability started by examining the provided commit patch, which was linked as the fix for the issue. The vulnerability description specifies a problem with authorization for the deletion of releases in Gitea. The commit d4262131b39899d9e9ee5caa2635c810d476e43f contains a critical change in the services/release/release.go file, specifically within the DeleteReleaseByID function. The patch modifies the call to git_model.IsUserAllowedToControlTag by replacing rel.PublisherID with doer.ID. This change indicates that the authorization check was previously performed against the user who published the release, rather than the user attempting to delete it. This flaw in the logic is the root cause of the vulnerability. Therefore, the release.DeleteReleaseByID function is identified as the vulnerable function, as it contained the incorrect authorization logic that was fixed by the patch.

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