CVE 6.9 MEDIUM

SiYuan: Information Disclosure and Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded Session Secret_CVE-2025-68948

6.9 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

SiYuan is self-hosted, open source personal knowledge management software. In versions 3.5.1 and prior, the SiYuan Note application utilizes a hardcoded cryptographic secret for its session store. This unsafe practice renders the session encryption ineffective. Since the sensitive AccessAuthCode is stored within the session cookie, an attacker who intercepts or obtains a user's encrypted session cookie (e.g., via session hijacking) can locally decrypt it using the public key. Once decrypted, the attacker can retrieve the AccessAuthCode in plain text and use it to authenticate or take over the session.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-68948
Source GitHub_M
Published Dec 27, 2025 at 00:21

Affected Product

Vendor siyuan-note
Product siyuan
Version <= 3.5.1
Affected Versions siyuan-note siyuan <= 3.5.1

CWE Classification

References

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