CVE-2022-30781 Shell command injection in gitea

What is CVE-2022-30781?

CVE-2022-30781 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 16 May 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gitea before 1.16.7 does not escape git fetch remote.

Weakness: CWE-116

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-30781?

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-2022-30781?

Upgrade code.gitea.io/gitea to 1.16.7 or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2022-30781 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-30781 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry and 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-gitea-2022-30781, CLEANSTART-2025-TF34768, GHSA-p5f9-c9j9-g8qx, GO-2022-0450.