CVE-2026-27783: Gitea: Missing repository-unit authorization on issue-template API endpoints
Three Gitea API endpoints — GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issue_templates,
GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issue_config and GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issue_config/validate
— read files from the repository’s Code default branch (.gitea/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/*
and issue_config.yaml) and return their contents, but are registered without
the reqRepoReader(unit.TypeCode) authorization middleware that every sibling
Code-tree endpoint in the same route group carries.
A user who has access to a private repository through any single repository unit (for example an organization team granted only the Issues unit, with no Code access) can therefore read the issue-template and issue-config files of that repository’s Code tree, which their permission set should not expose.
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