CVE-2025-0868Remote Code Execution in DocsGPT
- 9.3CriticalCVSS base score
- 17.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A vulnerability, that could result in Remote Code Execution (RCE), has been found in DocsGPT. Due to improper parsing of JSON data using eval() an unauthorized attacker could send arbitrary Python code to be executed via /api/remote endpoint.. This issue affects DocsGPT: from 0.8.1 through 0.12.0.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Nuclei templates1 template
- DocsGPT - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-0868.yamlSeverity critical
Exploit-DB1 entry
- DocsGPT 0.12.0 - Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52145webapps, pythonpublished 9 Apr 2025Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By CERT-PL
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERT-PLCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.1% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmdocsgptGHSA-9gff-5v8w-x922 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/02/CVE-2025-0868/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://cert.pl/posts/2025/02/CVE-2025-0868/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT (opens in a new tab)product
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-4586 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9gff-5v8w-x922 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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