CVE-2022-42968

criticalpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.40% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

Gitea before 1.17.3 does not sanitize and escape refs in the git backend. Arguments to git commands are mishandled.

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

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 · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 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)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-88USprimaryCWE-88US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gitea gitea< 1.17.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitea< 1.17.3osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitea
Go code.gitea.io/gitea< 1.17.3osvUSpkg:golang/code.gitea.io/gitea
Go github.com/go-gitea/gitea< 1.17.3osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/go-gitea/gitea

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-w8xw-7crf-h23xGitea vulnerable to Argument Injection2022-10-16ghsa · osvUS
Gitea before 1.17.3 does not sanitize and escape refs in the git backend. Arguments to git commands are mishandled.
BIT-gitea-2022-429682024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Gitea before 1.17.3 does not sanitize and escape refs in the git backend. Arguments to git commands are mishandled.
GO-2022-1065Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection in code.gitea.io/gitea2024-08-21vendor · osvUS
Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection 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 2022-10-16modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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