CVE-2025-49588 Linkwarden Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
Attackers can read arbitrary local files by submitting file:// URLs, potentially leaking user links and environment secrets.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-49588?
CVE-2025-49588 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in linkwarden, published on 2 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-73
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-49588?
How do I fix CVE-2025-49588?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-49588 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-49588 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-49588 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rfc2-x8hr-536q.