PT-2025-5593 · Unknown · Pwn.College

Cjreed121 · Published 2025-01-30 · Updated 2025-01-31 · CVE-2025-24886

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.7

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pwn.college (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to incorrect symlink checks on user-specified dojos, allowing users to perform a Local File Inclusion (LFI) from the CTFd container without requiring admin privileges. When a user clones or updates repositories, a check is performed to see if the repository contains any symlinks. A malicious user could craft a repository with symlinks pointed to sensitive files and then retrieve them using the CTFd website.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-61

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-24886

GHSA-FCQ8-JQQ5-9XMH

Affected Products

Pwn.College

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24886 · Security Note
• https://github.com/pwncollege/dojo/security/advisories/GHSA-fcq8-jqq5-9xmh · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/109331 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/16862 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1885098267538804938 · Twitter Post