CVE-2025-55345

Unsafe symlink following in restricted workspace-write sandbox leads to RCE

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Aug 13, 2025
Updated: Aug 13, 2025
Reserved: Aug 13, 2025

Description

Using Codex CLI in workspace-write mode inside a malicious context (repo, directory, etc) could lead to arbitrary file overwrite and potentially remote code execution due to symlinks being followed outside the allowed current working directory.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	JFROG

Weaknesses

CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Affected Products

Product	Versions
@openai/codex	before 0.12.0Affected

References

https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/codex-cli-symlink-arbitrary-file-overwrite-jfsa-2025-001378631/third-party-advisory
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1705patch

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