Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through cancel and rerun
Gitea Actions blocks the jobs of workflow runs from first-time fork pull request contributors until a maintainer approves the run. The rerun path only required a run to be finished and built the new attempt's jobs without considering the pending approval, so when a user with Actions write access cancelled a run that was awaiting approval and then re-ran it, the new jobs were created as waiting rather than blocked while the run still recorded that approval was required. Cancelling and re-running stale fork checks is a routine action that does not involve the approval control, so where Actions is enabled and a matching runner is registered, workflow code taken from the fork pull request head could run on the repository's runners without an explicit approval.
- Products
- gitea
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 28.0.0
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-104632
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through cancel and rerun
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 14 Oct 2026, 08:42 UTC
Gitea Actions blocks the jobs of workflow runs from first-time fork pull request contributors until a maintainer approves the run. The rerun path only required a run to be finished and built the new attempt's jobs without considering the pending approval, so when a user with Actions write access cancelled a run that was awaiting approval and then re-ran it, the new jobs were created as waiting rather than blocked while the run still recorded that approval was required. Cancelling and re-running stale fork checks is a routine action that does not involve the approval control, so where Actions is enabled and a matching runner is registered, workflow code taken from the fork pull request head could run on the repository's runners without an explicit approval.
osv:BIT-gitea-2026-104632
gitea
Fixed versions: 28.0.0
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gitea-2026-104632",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through cancel and rerun",
"summary": "Gitea Actions blocks the jobs of workflow runs from first-time fork pull request contributors until a maintainer approves the run. The rerun path only required a run to be finished and built the new attempt's jobs without considering the pending approval, so when a user with Actions write access cancelled a run that was awaiting approval and then re-ran it, the new jobs were created as waiting rather than blocked while the run still recorded that approval was required. Cancelling and re-running stale fork checks is a routine action that does not involve the approval control, so where Actions is enabled and a matching runner is registered, workflow code taken from the fork pull request head could run on the repository's runners without an explicit approval.",
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"references": [
"https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/",
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39399",
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.0.0",
"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-pvjf-7jrm-6w9g",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104632"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 316246,
"published_at": "2026-10-14T08:42:38.952+00:00"
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