dokploy up to 0.23.6 Environment Variable path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in dokploy up to 0.23.6. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Environment Variable Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-53375. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in dokploy up to 0.23.6. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Environment Variable Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Dokploy is a self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies the deployment and management of applications and databases. An authenticated attacker can read any file that the Traefik process user can access (e.g., /etc/passwd, application source, environment variable files containing credentials and secrets). This may lead to full compromise of other services or lateral movement. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.7.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-53375 since 06/27/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 0.23.7 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch e42f6bc61050cd438726921fced64477cbf8f8e6 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• dokploy

Version

• 0.23.0
• 0.23.1
• 0.23.2
• 0.23.3
• 0.23.4
• 0.23.5
• 0.23.6

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/

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