Critical 9.5Published Dec 25, 2025

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…

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 3:50 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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, CNA)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
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: mitre
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Dec 26, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Forgejo Forgejo forgejo:forgejo (from the name)	from 12.0.0 before 13.0.2; before 11.0.7	CNA record

References

References

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

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