Craft CMS vulnerable to potential information disclosure via unchecked asset relocation

CVE-2025-68436 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Authenticated users on a Craft installation could potentially expose sensitive assets via their user profile photo via maliciously crafted requests.

Users should update to the patched versions (5.8.21 and 4.16.17) to mitigate the issue.

Resources:

https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/4bcb0db554e273b66ce3b75263a13414c2368fc9

https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/4bcb0db554e273b66ce3b75263a13414c2368fc9

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
Advisory on GitHub
Open advisory ↗
Repository advisory
Open repository advisory ↗
Source code
Browse source ↗
Published (advisory)
2026-01-05 17:42:31 UTC
Updated
2026-01-06 15:52:09 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-01-05 17:42:31 UTC
NVD published
2026-01-05

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.05% 13.92%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
4.9 4.0 —
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:L)
Low privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:N)
No user interaction is required.
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:H)
High confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:N)
No integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:N)
No availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.
Exploit maturity (threat) (E:U)
Unreported: no public PoC, no reported exploitation, and no known simplification tools.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-53vf-c43h-j2x9 ↗
CVE CVE-2025-68436 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Credits

  • z3rco (reporter)

Affected packages (2)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
composer craftcms/cms >= 5.0.0-RC1, <= 5.8.20 5.8.21 —
composer craftcms/cms >= 4.0.0-RC1, <= 4.16.16 4.16.17 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence