CVE-2023-25168

CRITICAL

Pterodactyl Wings < 1.7.4 - Symlink Following

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Wings is Pterodactyl's server control plane. This vulnerability can be used to delete files and directories recursively on the host system. This vulnerability can be combined with `GHSA-p8r3-83r8-jwj5` to overwrite files on the host system. In order to use this exploit, an attacker must have an existing "server" allocated and controlled by Wings. This vulnerability has been resolved in version `v1.11.4` of Wings, and has been back-ported to the 1.7 release series in `v1.7.4`. Anyone running `v1.11.x` should upgrade to `v1.11.4` and anyone running `v1.7.x` should upgrade to `v1.7.4`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.6
EPSS 0.0077
EPSS Percentile 73.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (6)
pterodactyl/wings 1.11.0
pterodactyl/wings 1.11.1
pterodactyl/wings 1.11.2
pterodactyl/wings 1.11.3
pterodactyl/wings 0 - 1.7.4Go
pterodactyl/wings 1.7.0 - 1.7.4
Published Feb 09, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026