Vulnerability · Published Dec 26, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-68148FreshRSS globally denies access to feed via proxy modifying to 429 Retry-After
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in FreshRSS from FreshRSS. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. From version 1.27.0 to before 1.28.0, An attacker could globally deny access to feeds via proxy modifying to 429 Retry-After for a large list of feeds on given instance, making it unusable for majority of users. This issue has been patched in version 1.28.0.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
References
- https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-qw34-frg7-gf78 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8029 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/commit/7d4854a0a4f5665db599f18c34035786465639f3 x_refsource_MISC