CVE-2025-68937 (GCVE-0-2025-68937)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-25 23:57 – Updated: 2025-12-26 14:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-26 14:40 UTC
CWE
- CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
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