CVE-2026-55986 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Email Management API Bypasses ManageCredentials Feature Restrictions

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitea	Gitea Open Source Git Server

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References

Link	Providers
https://blog.gitea.com/gitea-1.27.0-is-released/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.27.0
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-46c7-w5w4-h644

History

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Gitea Gitea gitea Open Source Git Server
Vendors & Products		Gitea Gitea gitea Open Source Git Server

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Email Management API Bypasses ManageCredentials Feature Restrictions
Title		Email Management API Bypasses ManageCredentials Feature Restrictions
Weaknesses		CWE-284
References		https://blog.gitea.com/gitea-1.27.0-is-released/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.27.0 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-46c7-w5w4-h644

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Gitea

Published: 2026-08-13T16:44:41.580Z

Updated: 2026-08-14T18:29:12.328Z

Reserved: 2026-07-08T09:19:07.133Z

Link: CVE-2026-55986

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-14T17:38:36.544Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T17:17:24.963

Modified: 2026-08-14T19:17:19.990

Link: CVE-2026-55986

Redhat

No data.

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