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CVE-2025-68932

FreshRSS FreshRSS — FreshRSS has weak cryptographic randomness in remember-me token and nonce generation

EPSS 0.6%public exploitCVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
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CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 46.1.461 × 209.2Exploit: SSVC poc+1010.0SSVC exploitation: poc+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. Prior to version 1.28.0, FreshRSS uses cryptographically weak random number generators (mt_rand() and uniqid()) to generate remember-me authentication tokens and challenge-response nonces. This allows attackers to predict valid session tokens, leading to account takeover through persistent session hijacking. The remember-me tokens provide permanent authentication and are the sole credential for "keep me logged in" functionality. This issue has been patched in version 1.28.0.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
FreshRSS< 1.28.0–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)2.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

References

exploitgithub.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-j9wc-gwc6-p786refgithub.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8061refgithub.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/commit/57e1a375cbd2db9741ff19167813344f8eff5772