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SCA: security update for code.gitea.io/gitea (GHSA-fhv8-m4j4-cww2)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422787

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2022-38183)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fhv8-m4j4-cww2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422787

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38183

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38183

cwe: CWE-732