CVE-2025-68937

Forgejo before 13.0.2 allows attackers to write to unintended files, and possibly obtain server shell access, because of mishandling of out-of-repository symlink destinations for template repositories. This is also fixed for 11 LTS in 11.0.7 and later.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.24.7/
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/27340
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/29156
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/11.0.7.md
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/13.0.2.md
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/security-announcements/issues/43

Configurations

No configuration.

History

26 Dec 2025, 01:15

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26 Dec 2025, 00:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-12-26 00:16

Updated : 2025-12-29 15:57

NVD link : CVE-2025-68937

Mitre link : CVE-2025-68937

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-68937

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-61

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

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