What is CVE-2022-42968?

CVE-2022-42968 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-10-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-42968?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Gitea

CVE-2022-42968

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

Published 2022-10-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 66.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.012 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Gitea

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

References

github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/21463 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.17.3 (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-14 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-42968?: CVE-2022-42968 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-10-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-42968?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.