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🛡️ CVE-2022-38183 — gitea

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-732 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Gitea allowed assignment of private issues

In Gitea before 1.16.9, it was possible for users to add existing issues to projects. Due to improper access controls, an attacker could assign any issue to any project in Gitea (there was no permission check for fetching the issue). As a result, the attacker would get access to private issue titles.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-38183 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-38183 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • code.gitea.io/gitea
  • gitea

Timeline and source

Published on 10 June 2024 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
blog.gitea.io (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
herolab.usd.de (Web)

Other advisories for this package

code.gitea.io/gitea has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) in other software:

CVE-2022-38183 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-732
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-06-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
code.gitea.io/gitea — —
gitea — —

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