CVE-2022-46685 Jenkins Gitea Plugin vulnerable to Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

What is CVE-2022-46685?

CVE-2022-46685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitea Gitea, published on 7 Dec 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Jenkins Gitea Plugin 1.4.4 and earlier, the implementation of Gitea personal access tokens did not support credentials masking, potentially exposing them through the build log.

Weakness: CWE-319

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-46685?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.jenkins-ci.plugins:gitea and gitea. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitea Gitea.

How do I fix CVE-2022-46685?

Upgrade org.jenkins-ci.plugins:gitea to 1.4.5 or later.

Is CVE-2022-46685 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-46685 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-2022-46685, GHSA-x3qh-53qf-jxq9.