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.

Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-73 CWE-73

References

Other References

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2025-49588? +

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.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2025-49588? +

You can use Secably's free Website Scanner to check your website for known vulnerabilities. For infrastructure scanning, use the Port Scanner to identify exposed services that may be affected. Check the vendor advisories linked above for specific patch and version information.

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