CVE-2026-105661: Gitea panic on the repositories route of individual users

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-10-18 · updated 2026-10-19
Weakness: CWE-248

Description

Requesting `/{username}/-/repositories` for an individual user instead of an organization made the organization home handler dereference a nil organization and panic. The request needs no authentication and no special configuration. The server answered with an HTTP 500 error and logged a panic for each request; the fix returns 404 for individual users.

Affected products

Gitea Open Source Git Server: through 28.1.0

References

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.2.0/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39839
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39847
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v28.2.0
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-c3cr-qq9g-666c

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