Gitea erroneous repo clones

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2022-38795 · BIT-gitea-2022-38795 · GHSA-8j3v-68w3-3848 · Published 07/08/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-38795 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting code.gitea.io/gitea, gitea (gitea).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.56%, higher than 46.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.17.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
code.gitea.io/gitea Go	`< 1.17.2`	`1.17.2`
gitea gitea	`≤ 1.17.1`	No fix yet

In Gitea through 1.17.1, repo cloning can occur in the migration function.

NVD description

In Gitea through 1.17.1, repo cloning can occur in the migration function.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 1.17.2

1.17.2

≤ 1.17.1

No fix yet

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