CVE-2025-8110
File overwrite in file update API in Gogs
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wiz
Description
Improper Symbolic link handling in the PutContents API in Gogs allows Local Execution of Code.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Gogs Path Traversal Vulnerability.
- Added
- 12 Jan 2026
- Fix due (US federal)
- 2 Feb 2026
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wiz
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 45 days later
· 45 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WizCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/AU:Y/R:U/V:C |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | High8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 85.2% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogogs.io/gogsGHSA-mq8m-42gh-wq7r (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- http://wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-gogs-cve-2025-8110-rce-exploit (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/8078 (opens in a new tab)issue-tracking
- https://github.com/gogs/gogs/commit/553707f3fd5f68f47f531cfcff56aa3ec294c6f6 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-8110 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/11/3 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/11/4 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/17/4 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/18/1 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/18/2 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mq8m-42gh-wq7r (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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