🛡️ CVE-2025-63687 — forest

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-863 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

An issue was discovered in rymcu forest thru commit f782e85 (2025-09-04) in function doBefore in file src/main/java/com/rymcu/forest/core/service/security/AuthorshipAspect.java, allowing authorized attackers to delete arbitrary users posts.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-63687 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

CVE-2025-63687 is recorded against 1 package.

  • forest (fixed in 2025-09-04)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 November 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

gist.github.com
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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-11-07
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
forest — 2025-09-04

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://github.com/rymcu/forest/issues/193

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