CVE-2025-68920

Severity: high (CVSS 8.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-12-24 · updated 2026-10-07
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

C-Kermit (aka ckermit) through 10.0 Beta.12 (aka 416-beta12) before 244644d allows a remote Kermit system to overwrite files on the local system, or retrieve arbitrary files from the local system.

Affected products

kermitproject C-Kermit: from 7 through 10.0 Beta.12

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1123025
https://github.com/KermitProject/ckermit/pull/20
https://www.complete.org/kermit/
https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/test/tar/

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