CVE-2022-38183 Gitea allowed assignment of private issues

What is CVE-2022-38183?

CVE-2022-38183 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 12 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Gitea before 1.16.9, it was possible for users to add existing issues to projects. Due to improper access controls, an attacker could assign any issue to any project in Gitea (there was no permission check for fetching the issue). As a result, the attacker would get access to private issue titles.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38183?

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-2022-38183?

Upgrade code.gitea.io/gitea to 1.16.9 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2022-38183 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38183 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-2022-38183, GHSA-fhv8-m4j4-cww2, GO-2024-2769, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38183.