CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-55345
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-61
Description
Using Codex CLI in workspace-write mode inside a malicious context (repo, directory, etc) could lead to arbitrary file overwrite and potentially remote code execution due to symlinks being followed outside the allowed current working directory.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness
References
- https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1705 github.com
- https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/codex-cli-symlink-arbitrary-file-overwrite-jfsa-2025-001378631/ research.jfrog.com
- https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/codex-cli-symlink-arbitrary-file-overwrite-jfsa-2025-001378631/ research.jfrog.com