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.
This project deploys the use of one or more generative artificial intelligence such as but not limited to large language model (LLM) for the following tasks:
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- Performing enhanced web searches due to polluted search engine indexes.
- Performing completely generated media such as but not limited to images, videos, and audios.
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- Performing development via multi-steps queries (also known as vibe coding or agentic AI processing).
- Performing data analytics via multi-steps queries (also known as vibe coding or AI vibing).
- Performing dedicated and task specific work where conventional technologies could not achieve such as but not limited to upscaling an image verbatim.
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- Performing end-user use case simulated testings.
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- Performing completely generated data visualization via multi-step queries (also known as vibe coding).
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- Performing data clean-up via multi-step queries (also known as vibe coding).
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Title: CVE 2025-68971
Creators: (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho
Packaged-By: (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho
Contact: hello@chewkeanho.com
SKU: chewkeanho-research-cve-2025-68971
UUID: D44E82C4-7EEF-436A-85FD-883062554B67
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18932933
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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