# 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.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`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`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 2 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rfc2-x8hr-536q

## 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 (External Control of File Name or Path)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-49588 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-49588 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-49588 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-49588 exists.

Affected product: linkwarden. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49588/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49588/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49588
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49588
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49588

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49588/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.