Pterodactyl Panel up to 1.11.x SFTP Connection session expiration

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A vulnerability was found in Pterodactyl Panel up to 1.11.x and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component SFTP Connection Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to session expiration. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-68954. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Pterodactyl Panel up to 1.11.x. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component SFTP Connection Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a session expiration vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-613. According to WASC, "Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization." As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. Versions 1.11.11 and below do not revoke active SFTP connections when a user is removed from a server instance or has their permissions changes with respect to file access over SFTP. This allows a user that was already connected to SFTP to remain connected and access files even after their permissions are revoked. A user must have been connected to SFTP at the time of their permissions being revoked in order for this vulnerability to be exploited. This issue is fixed in version 1.12.0.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-68954 since 12/26/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 2bd9d8baddb0e0606e4a9d5be402f48678ac88d5 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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Vendor

• Pterodactyl

Name

• Panel

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/

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