SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-49588

Description

Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages. In version 2.10.2, the server accepts links of format file:///etc/passwd and doesn't do any validation before sending them to parsers and playwright, this can result in leak of other user's links (and in some cases it might be possible to leak environment secrets). This issue has been patched in version 2.10.3 which has not been made public at time of publication.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Linkwarden	Linkwarden	2.10.2, <2.10.3

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-73

External Control of File Name or Path

The product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	Software Edition	Target Software	Target Hardware	Other Information
a	linkwarden	linkwarden	2.10.2	/	/	/	/	/	/	/
a	linkwarden	linkwarden	<2.10.3	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

References

https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/security/advisories/GHSA-rfc2-x8hr-536q

CVSS Score

8.7 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Attack Complexity: LOW
Attack Requirements: NONE
Privileges Required: NONE
User Interaction: NONE
Scope:
Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE
Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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

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Timeline

Published: July 2, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
Last Modified: July 3, 2025, 3:13 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

CVE-2025-49588