Gitea Private Container Images Unauthenticated Access | MSSP Advisory

High

DateMay 27, 2026

📋Executive Summary

A vulnerability in Gitea allows unauthenticated attackers to pull private container images from self-hosted Gitea instances without any credentials. CVE-2026-27771 affects all Gitea versions before 1.26.2, exposing private repositories and container registries that organizations assumed were protected behind authentication.

⚠️Why It Matters for MSSPs

Your clients running Gitea for internal development are bleeding private container images and potentially source code to anyone on the internet right now. If you manage any environments with Gitea instances, those clients expect you to know about this exposure and act on it before their intellectual property walks out the door.

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