CVE-2025-68278 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in tinacms (npm), affecting versions < 3.1.1. It is fixed in 3.1.1, 2.0.4, 2.0.3.
Summary npx create-tina-app@latest Start the tinacms server, e.g., with npm run dev Observe the console of the server printing the password file, showing that attackers can execute arbitrary commands. Impact RCE: attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the server hosting tinacms. Feasibility Potential attack scenarios can be executed like this: Companies often have technical writers as contractors. These contractors produce md files, which they send over email or upload in a shared cloud folder. Developers download these files and upload them in tinacms's content folder. While this example might appear speculative or contrived, a general observation is that developers would be very surprised to find out that processing untrusted markdown files via tinacms = server-side code execution = complete machine take over. That is, tinacms users might not expect markdown files to contain anything else than data and gray-matter violates that assumption.
Untrusted input is evaluated as executable code within the application's runtime environment. Typical impact: arbitrary code execution within the application's privilege context.
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tinacms (< 3.1.1)@tinacms/cli (< 2.0.4)@tinacms/graphql (< 2.0.3)tinacms → 3.1.1 (npm)@tinacms/cli → 2.0.4 (npm)@tinacms/graphql → 2.0.3 (npm)Severity tells you how bad this could be in the worst case. It does not tell you whether you are exposed. Exploitability and impact are functions of runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A vulnerable package can sit in your dependency tree and never run.
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Upgrade the following packages to resolve this vulnerability:
tinacms to 3.1.1 or later@tinacms/cli to 2.0.4 or later@tinacms/graphql to 2.0.3 or laterKodem Kai can prioritize this vulnerability in your dependency tree and generate a fix recommendation.
CVE-2025-68278 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in tinacms (npm), affecting versions < 3.1.1. It is fixed in 3.1.1, 2.0.4, 2.0.3. Untrusted input is evaluated as executable code within the application's runtime environment.
tinacms (npm) (versions < 3.1.1)@tinacms/cli (npm) (versions < 2.0.4)@tinacms/graphql (npm) (versions < 2.0.3)Yes. CVE-2025-68278 is fixed in 3.1.1, 2.0.4, 2.0.3. Upgrade to this version or later.
Whether CVE-2025-68278 is exploitable in your environment depends on whether the vulnerable code is present and reachable. A CVSS score is a worst-case rating; it does not account for your specific deployment, configuration, or usage patterns. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to show which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so you can focus on the ones that represent real risk. Get a demo
Exploitability and impact are not fixed properties of a CVE. They depend on runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A high CVSS score on a dependency that never runs is not the same as real risk. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter.
tinacms to 3.1.1 or later@tinacms/cli to 2.0.4 or later@tinacms/graphql to 2.0.3 or later