CVE-2025-50738
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Memos application, up to version v0.24.3, contains a vulnerability that allows for the embedding of markdown images with arbitrary URLs. This vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on July 29, 2025. The issue affects the Memos application, a self-hosted knowledge management and note-taking platform (NVD, Miggo).

Technical details

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-50738 and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The issue stems from the application's handling of markdown images, where viewing a memo containing such an image causes the browser to automatically fetch the image URL without explicit user consent or interaction (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability can lead to information disclosure and user tracking. An attacker can obtain the viewing user's IP address, browser User-Agent string, and potentially other request-specific information through the attacker-controlled server (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to upgrade to version 0.24.4 or later which contains fixes for this vulnerability (Miggo).

Additional resources


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