What is CVE-2022-46685?

CVE-2022-46685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-12-12.

How severe is CVE-2022-46685?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Gitea

CVE-2022-46685

In Jenkins Gitea Plugin 1.4.4 and earlier, the implementation of Gitea personal access tokens did not support credentials masking, potentially exposing them through the build log.

Published 2022-12-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 25.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Gitea
Jenkins Project Gitea Plugin — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2022-12-07/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-46685?: CVE-2022-46685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea, classified under Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-12-12.
How severe is CVE-2022-46685?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.