weblateorg/weblate · Security
Weblate is vulnerable to RCE through Git config file overwrite
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-8vcg-cfxj-p5m3
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-68398
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Impact
It was possible to overwrite Git configuration remotely and override some of its behavior.
Resources
Thanks to Jason Marcello for responsible disclosure.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/security/advisories/GHSA-8vcg-cfxj-p5m3 ↗
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/pull/17330 ↗
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/pull/17345 ↗
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/releases/tag/weblate-5.15.1 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68398 ↗
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/commit/4837a4154390f7c1d03c0e398aa6439dcfa361b4 ↗
- https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/commit/dd8c9d7b00eebe28770fa0e2cd96126791765ea7 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vcg-cfxj-p5m3 ↗