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Linkwarden Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2025-49588
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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2 Nov 2026, 17:31 UTC · Revision 1

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Linkwarden Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Jul 2025, 14:05 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2025-49588
Complete source record
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  "id": "060b260d267a9ff6c4eead886aed6d10af2ac6a733887c65bb0215cfc65d04a5",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49588",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Linkwarden Local File Inclusion Vulnerability",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-49588",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-49588",
        "GHSA-rfc2-x8hr-536q"
      ],
      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V4",
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
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                      }
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                    "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                  }
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.400121058Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/49xxx/CVE-2025-49588.json",
        "https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/security/advisories/GHSA-rfc2-x8hr-536q",
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      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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        ],
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      }
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 487782,
  "published_at": "2025-07-02T14:05:29.039+00:00"
}