CVE-2021-45330

highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.014 · 73 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.45% (73rd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-459USprimaryCWE-269US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gitea gitea≤ 1.15.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitea< 1.15.8osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitea
Go code.gitea.io/gitea< 1.6.0osvUSpkg:golang/code.gitea.io/gitea

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-pg38-r834-g45jImproper Privilege Management in Gitea2022-02-10ghsa · osvUS
An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.
BIT-gitea-2021-453302024-03-06vendor · osvUS
An issue exsits in Gitea through 1.15.7, which could let a malicious user gain privileges due to client side cookies not being deleted and the session remains valid on the server side for reuse.
GO-2022-0982Improper Privilege Management in Gitea in code.gitea.io/gitea2024-08-21vendor · osvUS
Improper Privilege Management in Gitea in code.gitea.io/gitea

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-02-09modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4336 cnnvd
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45330 cnnvd
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4336 enisa_euvd
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4336Issue TrackingThird Party Advisorynvd

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