CVE-2022-27313 Arbitrary file deletion in gitea

What is CVE-2022-27313?

CVE-2022-27313 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 3 May 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in Gitea v1.16.3 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via deleting the configuration file.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-27313?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including code.gitea.io/gitea and gitea. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2022-27313?

Upgrade code.gitea.io/gitea to 1.16.4 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-27313 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-27313 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Gitea Gitea

• CVE-2026-60004 Gitea Code Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-73278 Gitea WebAuthn bypass during OAuth and OIDC sign-in Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-94205 Gitea fork workflow approval bypass through maintainer-triggered events Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-42968 Gitea vulnerable to Argument Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-45330 Improper Privilege Management in Gitea Critical 9.8

All Gitea Gitea vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-gitea-2022-27313, CLEANSTART-2025-IL34570, GHSA-g7p7-x6w7-w6qg, GO-2022-0442.