diff --git a/app/services/gitea/client_service.rb b/app/services/gitea/client_service.rb
index fae4ae27e..b2b0aef11 100644
--- a/app/services/gitea/client_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/gitea/client_service.rb
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ class Gitea::ClientService < ApplicationService
       end
 
     [body, message]
+  rescue
+    return [{}, ""]
   end
 
   def json_parse!(body)