CVE-2026-58422: Gitea: Improper authorization on OAuth sign-in callback silently re-enables administrator-disabled accounts
The OAuth2 sign-in callback in Gitea 1.26.1 unconditionally re-enables a locally-disabled account whenever the user authenticates through a linked external identity provider, silently undoing any administrator-initiated Disable Account action and issuing a fresh authenticated session in the same response. Once a user has linked any external IdP, the administrator’s disable toggle becomes non-binding — the user can re-enable themselves on demand by completing one OAuth callback, regaining full read and write access to their repositories, organizations, and access tokens.
References
- blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.26.3-and-1.26.4
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-g9g6-qhrc-p3qc
- github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/c43eb7c33a100ffc7b2367adf165f7085e0ccdc5
- github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/38009
- github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.26.4
- github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-g9g6-qhrc-p3qc
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58422
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