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CVE-2022-38183

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38183 is an improper access control vulnerability in Gitea versions prior to 1.16.9, allowing authenticated users to assign any existing issue to any project without proper permission checks. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and could lead to unauthorized disclosure of private issue titles. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.16.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitea:gitea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

audiobookshelfpatch availablevia llm_extracted
axispatch availablevia llm_extracted
extreme_networkspatch availablevia llm_extracted
freebsdpatch availablevia llm_extracted
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: code.gitea.io/giteaFixed in: 1.16.9
trendmicropatch availablevia llm_extracted

Vendor Advisories (6)

goGHSA-fhv8-m4j4-cww2medium

Gitea allowed assignment of private issues

Aug 13, 2022
trendmicrollm-trendmicro-fcc5323268c16454

Incorrect Access Control

axisllm-axis-8227caae997aa0c9

Incorrect Access Control

audiobookshelfllm-audiobookshelf-8352b903c6a58d76

Incorrect Access Control

freebsdllm-freebsd-d198696080a2bbb8

Incorrect Access Control

extreme_networksllm-extreme_networks-1c7fe3d4f4046b98

Incorrect Access Control

References

blog.gitea.io / 2022/07/gitea-1.16.9-is-released
Release NotesVendor Advisory
herolab.usd.de / security-advisories/usd-2022-0015
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202210-14
Third Party Advisory