CVE-2025-68937Forgejo 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 repositorie…
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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
- 9.5 CRITICAL (v4.0, NVD)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
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-61
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 13, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
No affected products are listed yet.
References
- https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.24.7/
- https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/27340
- https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/29156
- https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/11.0.7.md
- https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/13.0.2.md
- https://codeberg.org/forgejo/security-announcements/issues/43
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