2025-12-25 23:57CVE-2025-68937mitre
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-61

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.

Problem type

Affected products

Forgejo

Forgejo

< 13.0.2 - AFFECTED

< 11.0.7 - AFFECTED

References

GitHub Security Advisories

GHSA-7mhf-6fhv-c83c

Forgejo before 13.0.2 allows attackers to write to unintended files, and possibly obtain server...

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7mhf-6fhv-c83c

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.

JSON source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-68937
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