🛡️ CVE-2025-68916 — netman-208

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-68916 is classified as CWE-25: Path Traversal: '/../filedir'. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "/../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Affected software

CVE-2025-68916 is recorded against 1 package.

• netman-208 (fixed in 1.12)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 December 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

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Other advisories for this package

netman-208 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2025-68915 (5.5 Medium, published 24 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-68914 (6.5 Medium, published 24 Dec 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-25: Path Traversal: '/../filedir') in other software:

• CVE-2026-23877 (4.3 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-58286 (3.3 Low, published 11 Oct 2025)
• GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w (published 18 Dec 2024)
• GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c (published 18 Dec 2024)
• CVE-2023-6947 (7.7 High, published 10 Dec 2024)
• CVE-2024-2442 (7.5 High, published 19 Mar 2024)
• CVE-2023-52138 (8.2 High, published 5 Feb 2024)
• CVE-2023-6919 (7.5 High, published 26 Jan 2024)

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