CVE-2026-89151 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Forgejo before 16.0.4 allows use of restricted API tokens for unintended access to the "allow maintainer edit" feature.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

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 none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Forgejo	Forgejo

No data.

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References

Link	Providers
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/139655
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/15.0.8.md

History

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		Forgejo Restricted API Token Privilege Escalation

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Forgejo before 16.0.4 allows use of restricted API tokens for unintended access to the "allow maintainer edit" feature.
First Time appeared		Forgejo Forgejo forgejo
Weaknesses		CWE-863
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:forgejo:forgejo::::::::
Vendors & Products		Forgejo Forgejo forgejo
References		https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/139655 https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/15.0.8.md
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2026-09-11T02:23:27.866Z

Updated: 2026-09-11T20:01:21.662Z

Reserved: 2026-09-11T02:23:27.533Z

Link: CVE-2026-89151

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-11T20:01:06.321Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-11T03:16:24.450

Modified: 2026-09-22T20:00:03.713

Link: CVE-2026-89151

Redhat

No data.

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