CVE-2025-68948 (GCVE-0-2025-68948)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-27 00:21 – Updated: 2025-12-29 16:51
VLAI?
Title
SiYuan: Information Disclosure and Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded Session Secret
Summary
SiYuan is self-hosted, open source personal knowledge management software. In versions 3.5.1 and prior, the SiYuan Note application utilizes a hardcoded cryptographic secret for its session store. This unsafe practice renders the session encryption ineffective. Since the sensitive AccessAuthCode is stored within the session cookie, an attacker who intercepts or obtains a user's encrypted session cookie (e.g., via session hijacking) can locally decrypt it using the public key. Once decrypted, the attacker can retrieve the AccessAuthCode in plain text and use it to authenticate or take over the session.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-321 - Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| siyuan-note | siyuan |
Affected:
<= 3.5.1
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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