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Critical severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2023· Updated Mar 10, 2025

Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following allowing the deletion of files and directories on the host system in wings

CVE-2023-25168

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/pterodactyl/wingsGo
< 1.7.41.7.4
github.com/pterodactyl/wingsGo
>= 1.11.0, < 1.11.41.11.4

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