CVE-2025-65781 Denial of service in n/a

High 8.2 Published Updated

Attackers can cause denial of service and potential identity spoofing by sending non-empty bearer tokens to the attachment upload API.

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-2025-65781?

CVE-2025-65781 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Wekan The Open Source kanban board system up to version 18.15, fixed in 18.16. Attachment upload API treats the Authorization bearer value as a userId and enters a non-terminating body-handling branch for any non-empty bearer token, enabling trivial application-layer DoS and latent identity-spoofing.

Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-65781?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wekan Project Wekan.

How do I fix CVE-2025-65781?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-65781 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-65781 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-65781 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-j27j-25gc-gv9v.

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