Accessing another repository with GitHub CLI in GitHub Actions

Question

I'm trying to access another github repo with gh cli as a part of a workflow. I am using the gh release view command as below

run: |
    echo "::set-output name=description::$(gh release view --repo <owner/repo>)"
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

The workflow is failing with 404, I understand it's because the repo is private, even though both repositories have the same owner. When authenticated locally, the command works just fine.

Is there any way to access that repo in the workflow?