{"cve":"CVE-2026-116474","nvd":{"published":"2026-11-01T10:18:35.170","modified":"2026-11-01T10:18:35.283","status":"Deferred","description":"The `GITEA_TOKEN` of a Gitea Actions job authenticates as the `gitea-actions` system user, and the `/api/v1/user` email and GPG key endpoints accepted that user, so a job could register an email address and a GPG key on it; without required email confirmation (the default) the address is stored as activated. Commit verification treats a key without a real owner as the instance signing key, so any user who can run a workflow job could make commits signed with their own key show as trusted and signed by the instance in every repository where they appear, including pull requests to repositories the user cannot write to. The impact is limited to the displayed signature status: enforcement such as required signed commits only checks that a signature is verified and is unaffected, and no access is gained. The `/api/v1/user` routes now reject system users.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-347"],"references":["https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0/","https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39945","https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/40115","https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0","https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-mf6p-vqpw-3r7x"],"reference_tags":[{"url":"https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.3.0/","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39945","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/40115","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.3.0","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-mf6p-vqpw-3r7x","tags":[]}],"products":[],"affected":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-11-01T10:34:16.358491727+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-116474","score":0.00138,"percentile":0.03129,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"exploits":[],"weaknesses":[{"name":"Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature","common_name":null,"deprecated":false,"replaced_by":[],"id":"CWE-347"}],"osv":[],"fixed":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program.","Public exploits: links to the Exploit Database (https://www.exploit-db.com, by OffSec; index under GPL-2.0), Rapid7's Metasploit Framework modules (https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework, BSD-3-Clause) and ProjectDiscovery's nuclei templates (https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates, MIT). Only the links, titles and dates are stored; no exploit code is fetched or served.","CWE names and descriptions: MITRE's Common Weakness Enumeration (https://cwe.mitre.org), Copyright © 2006–2026, The MITRE Corporation, under the CWE terms of use (https://cwe.mitre.org/about/termsofuse.html). CWE is a trademark of The MITRE Corporation."]}