CVE Alert: CVE-2025-25194

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Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-25194

Lemmy, a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse, is vulnerable to server-side request forgery via a dependency on activitypub_federation, a framework for ActivityPub federation in Rust. This vulnerability, which is present in versions 0.6.2 and prior of activitypub_federation and versions 0.19.8 and prior of Lemmy, allows a user to bypass any predefined hardcoded URL path or security anti-Localhost mechanism and perform an arbitrary GET request to any Host, Port and URL using a Webfinger Request. As of time of publication, a fix has not been made available.

Affected Endpoints:

  • GET request

Published Date:

2/10/2025, 11:15:16 PM

⚠️ CVSS Score:

CVSS v3 Score: 4 (Medium)

Exploit Status:

Not Exploited

References:

Recommended Action:

No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.


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