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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-68937 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  MITRE
CVSS-B 9.5 CRITICAL
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

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.24.7/ MITRE
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/27340 MITRE
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/29156 MITRE
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/11.0.7.md MITRE
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/13.0.2.md MITRE
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/security-announcements/issues/43 MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following MITRE  

Change History

2 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-68937
NVD Published Date:
12/25/2025
NVD Last Modified:
12/25/2025
Source:
MITRE