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GHSA-W8XW-7CRF-H23X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-10-16 12:00 – Updated: 2022-10-21 16:07

Summary

Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection

Details

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

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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  "id": "GHSA-w8xw-7crf-h23x",
  "modified": "2022-10-21T16:07:23Z",
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    },
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    }
  ],
  "summary": "Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection"
}

CVE-2022-42968 (GCVE-0-2022-42968)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-14 14:34

Summary

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

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/21463
	https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.17.3
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-14	vendor-advisory

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GHSA-W8XW-7CRF-H23X

CVE-2022-42968 (GCVE-0-2022-42968)

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