Name: CVE-2025-68937: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-12-26T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-68937, CWE-61, CVSS 9.5, EPSS 0.00081

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 Details

CVSS 4.0 Base Score: 9.5 (CRITICAL)
CVSS 4.0 Vector: (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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade forgejo	Jan 27, 2026	Dec 29, 2025

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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