CVE-2026-116296
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.2% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
The API routes for releases, release assets, milestones and repository labels did not reject changes to archived repositories. A user with write access to an archived repository, or a holder of such a user's write-scoped token, could replace or delete release assets while keeping their download URLs, delete releases and tags, and create, edit or delete milestones and labels of a repository that is meant to be read-only. Changing requests on these routes now return 423 Locked for archived repositories.
- EPSS
- 0.2% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 10th percentile. Scored 2026-11-01. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
- CWE
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Published
- Modified
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