Security advisory

{
  "id": "c9dc03f168eb75c4377699bd3a18c132be08a8a9c6d07a62335eda001ad47fc0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-42968",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-42968",
    "summary": "Gitea before 1.17.3 does not sanitize and escape refs in the git backend. Arguments to git commands are mishandled.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-42968",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-42968",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitea-2022-42968",
        "CVE-2022-42968",
        "GHSA-w8xw-7crf-h23x",
        "GO-2022-1065"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "f48fda8eefa4d47e335f01ac92366b9373950e0e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.17.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
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                        "fixed": "f48fda8eefa4d47e335f01ac92366b9373950e0e"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "v1.17.3"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.17.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.17.2",
            "v1.17.1",
            "v1.17.0",
            "v1.17.0-rc2",
            "v1.17.0-rc1",
            "v1.17.0-dev",
            "v1.16.0-rc1",
            "v1.15.0-rc1",
            "v1.16.0-dev",
            "v1.15.0-dev",
            "v1.14.0-dev",
            "v1.13.0-dev",
            "v1.12.0-dev",
            "v1.10.5",
            "v1.11.0-rc1",
            "v1.10.0-rc1",
            "v1.11.0-dev",
            "v1.9.0-rc1",
            "v1.10.0-dev",
            "v1.9.0-dev",
            "v1.7.0-dev",
            "v1.6.0-rc1",
            "v1.6.0-dev",
            "v1.5.0-rc1",
            "v1.5.0-dev",
            "v1.1.0",
            "v1.0.0",
            "v0.9.99"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-42968.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.896748245Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.17.3",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/42xxx/CVE-2022-42968.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42968",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-14",
        "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/21463"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/42xxx/CVE-2022-42968.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-42968",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 518534,
  "published_at": "2022-10-16T00:00:00+00:00"
}