
[MIRROR] Full CVE-2025-68971 Security Vulnerability Research Report.
On 2025-12-22, a security vulnerability CVE 2025-68971 (CVSS: 5.5/MEDIUM) was discovered in open-source Forgejo 13.0.3 application first detected on FreeBSD14 operating system. It caused the operating system went into mass-killing all system applications and services due to memory starvation as Forgejo hogged the entire operating system's available free memories for temporarily storing attachment file upload fragments. Whenever an attachment file of size greater than the operating system's entire memory can handle is uploaded by any user, the operating system has no choice but to kill all services and applications and restart its runtime. The killing includes but not limited to runtime graphical user interface and network services such as XOrg, LXQt desktop manager, Nginx reverse proxy server, and SSH server. The fallout effect is data loss and data corruption due to unexpected program termination.
On 2026-01-16, Forgejo security team patched the security vulnerability mediation in version 14.0.0 and by 2026-03-11, version 14.0.0, 14.0.1, and 14.0.2 were all tested and verified the security vulnerability was fixed. The conclusion is that the public MUST upgrade Forgejo to version 14.0.2 and above for mitigating this vulnerability.
That is all. Otherwise, this report detailed the vulnerability and its mediation data solely for archiving and educational purposes only.
Please refer to Releases section for the latest version of the report.
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The public key and the associated certificate are attached. Only the main owner keeps and maintains the private keys. To verify the content's integrity:
.asc file
with the same filename)..gpg).$ gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /path/to/public.gpg --verify /path/to/file.asc
.sig/.sign
file with the same filename)..pem) containing the public key
within.$ openssl dgst -verify /path/to/pubkey.pem -signature /path/to/file.sig /path/to/file
This decree defines the project’s policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence. The following sections list data lifecycle activities and indicate whether A.I. is deployed. Unless explicitly stated otherwise (e.g. deployment with specifics), A.I. is not used for these tasks.
[!Note]
Example activities:
- Performing enhanced web searches due to search engine pollution by A.I. slop contents.
- Performing completely auto-generated media such as but not limited to images, videos, and audios.
[!Note]
Example activities:
- Performing multi-steps process development.
- Performing data sanitization like data cleaning and data deduplication.
- Performing data format compatibility conversion.
- Constructing and optimizing data processing libraries.
- Upscaling an image with neural network not achievable with conventional image manipulation technologies.
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Example activities:
- Performing security and threat detection.
- Performing
Data at Restencryption and health monitoring.- Performing encryption data storage management.
- Performing automated data storage house-keeping.
- Performing data storage devices health monitoring and mitigation.
[!Note]
Example activities:
- Performing multi-steps data analytics.
- Performing pattern detection and recognition.
- Developing predictive modelling.
- Developing natural language queries models.
- Creating artificial intelligence's neural network models based on data feeds.
- Optimizing artificial intelligence's transfer learning, hyperparameter tuning, etc.
[!Note]
Example activities:
- Performing end-user use case simulated testings.
- Performing automated sanity testings.
- Performing penetration & security testings.
- Performing anomaly detection testings.
- Performing schema validations.
- Performing automated testing of data pipelines.
[!Note]
Example activities:
- Performing data graphical visualization creation based on data feeds.
- Performing summarized dashboarding with graphical design and data feeds.
- Performing report writing.
- Performing prediction projections.
[!Note]
Example activities:
- Performing personal identifiable information (PII) filtration and removal.
- Performing regulatory compliance checks (e.g., data filtration, censorship, removal as required by law).
- Performing compliance monitoring and validation.
- Performing data lineage tracking and analysis.
- Performing data audit trail analysis.
[!Note]
Example activities:
- Performing document's metadata creation.
- Performing document translation.
- Processing data publication licensing and management.
git-lfs due to ambiguous and inconsistent storage allocation
policies from various git service providers.
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The ABC Project Team) matching
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CREATORS.txt and CONTRIBUTORS.txt..svg to .png or .jpg)..svg plain vector files.This entire repository is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To ensure better understanding of this license, the following sub-sections will briefly describe how to deploy the content.
For registered non-profit organizations (NGO), you are considered a
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privileges from the creator(s).
Unless otherwise specified in writing, you MUST attribute back to the creator(s) as follows:
Title: CVE 2025-68971
Creators: (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho
Packaged-By: (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho
Contact: [email protected]
SKU: chewkeanho-research-cve-2025-68971
UUID: D44E82C4-7EEF-436A-85FD-883062554B67
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18932933
CVE: CVE-2025-68971
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0)
Repository Made On: 2026-03-10
Repository Made From: Malaysia, South East Asia
Procure: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18932933
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