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critical 9.8

CVE-2022-31267 in the critical feed json

Unescaped control characters in Gitblit

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-fh55-vwjc-69c7 , EUVD-2022-3782

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
17.5%
EPSS 17.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Gitblit 1.9.2 allows privilege escalation via the Config User Service: a control character can be placed in a profile data field, such as an emailAddress%3Atext 'attacker@example.com\n\trole = "#admin"' value.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.gitblit:gitblit 1.9.3

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Exploit prediction

17.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/gitblit/gitblit/issues/1410 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.gitblit:gitblit
<1.9.3
1.9.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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