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🛡️ CVE-2025-68954 — panel

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-613 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Pterodactyl does not revoke SFTP access when server is deleted or permissions reduced

Summary

Pterodactyl does not revoke _active_ SFTP connections when a user is removed from a server instance or has their permissions changes with respect to file access over SFTP. This allows a user that was already connected to SFTP to remain connected and access files even after their permissions are revoked.

Details

When a user opens a connection to a server using the Wings SFTP server instance the permissions are checked and returned from the authentication API call made to the Panel. However, credentials are not checked again after the initial handshake. Thus, if a user is removed from a server in the panel or have their permissions modified, those permissions are not updated in the SFTP connection.

As a result, a user that has already gained access to a server's files via the SFTP subsystem will maintain those permissions until disconnected (via Wings restart, or a manual disconnection on their end).

> [!NOTE]

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> This issue impacts the SFTP subsystem for server files specifically. There is no exposure of Wings private data, or any data outside of a server's local filesystem. Additionally, a user must have been _connected to SFTP at the time of their permissions being revoked_ in order for this issue to be exploited. If a user was not connected, they would not be able to connect once their permissions were reduced.

Fix

Please upgrade to [email protected] and [email protected] to resolve this issue. Patches are available via the implementation PRs, but it is recommended to apply by upgrading the entire instance.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-68954 is classified as CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration. Sessions stay valid longer than they should, so an old identifier still grants access.

Affected software

CVE-2025-68954 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • github.com/pterodactyl/wings
  • panel (fixed in 1.12.0)
  • pterodactyl/panel (fixed in 1.12.0)
  • wings (fixed in 1.12.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 January 2026 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/pterodactyl/wings has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-613
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/pterodactyl/wings — —
panel — 1.12.0
pterodactyl/panel — 1.12.0
wings — 1.12.0

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