# CVE-2026-97208: Gitea push mirror API bypass of DISABLE\_NEW\_PUSH policy

- Also known as: BIT-GITEA-2026-97208, GHSA-8HHH-MQPG-JPXC
- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 28.1.0
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- gitea.dev: through 28.0.0
- gitea (Bitnami): fixed in 28.1.0

## Description

The Gitea API endpoint for creating push mirrors (`POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/push_mirrors`) checked only whether mirroring was enabled and not the `[mirror] DISABLE_NEW_PUSH` setting that the web interface enforces. A repository administrator could therefore create new push mirrors on instances where the site administrator had disabled them. A push mirror pushes all refs of the repository to a remote chosen by the caller, on each commit or on a schedule.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gitea.dev, gitea, upgrade to a fixed version (28.1.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-8hhh-mqpg-jpxc
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39501
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39507
- https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.1.0/
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.1.0

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