Arbitrary file deletion in gitea

published 2022-05-03 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-gitea-2022-27313 , EUVD-2022-3917 , GHSA-g7p7-x6w7-w6qg , GO-2022-0442

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.0%; EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits: 0; none known

An arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in Gitea v1.16.3 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via deleting the configuration file.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 distros 1 links 2

go code.gitea.io/gitea 1.16.4
bitnami gitea 1.16.4

gitea Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 1.16.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-27313

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

github.com/go-gitea/gitea#19072 pull request
github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.16.4 release

Exploit prediction

1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
GitHub	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
go	code.gitea.io/gitea	<1.16.4	1.16.4
bitnami	gitea	>=1.16.3, <1.16.4	1.16.4

References

github.com /go-gitea/gitea/pull/19072
web, patch, third-party-advisory, advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27313
advisory, web
github.com /go-gitea/gitea
package
github.com /go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.16.4
web
github.com /advisories/GHSA-g7p7-x6w7-w6qg
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary