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Critical · 9.5 Public exploit CVE-2025-68937 EUVD-2025-205401GHSA-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…

Published Dec 25, 2025 · Updated Dec 26, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

Vendor: forgejo Product: forgejo

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Forgejo Forgejo 12.0.0 – < 13.0.2, < 11.0.7 13.0.2

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 2 repositories

  • Scratchappy/CVE-2025-68937 ★ 0 · Aug 2, 2026

    Automated PoC exploit for CVE-2025-68937 — Gitea/Forgejo Template Symlink RCE. Any authenticated user can get a shell as the git service user.

  • ClemaX/Gitea-Forgejo-CVE-2025-68937 ★ 0 · Dec 1, 2025

    Directory traversal in Gitea and Forgejo's repository‑template processing allows remote authenticated attackers to process arbitrary files on the filesystem, leading to remote code execution.

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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