CVE-2025-68937 (GCVE-0-2025-68937)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-25 23:57
Modified
2025-12-26 01:00
Severity ?
9.5 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CWE
  • CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Forgejo Forgejo Version: 12.0.0   ≤
Version: 0   ≤
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