Application crash via recursive Path flattening
Published Mar 21, 2024 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Denial of service in Apache Commons Configuration 2.0 through 2.10.0 allows context-dependent attackers to crash an integrating application. The flattenIterator() method treats java.nio.file.Path as a nested Iterable and recursively flattens each derived Path without a termination guard. Reachability requires an application to add an attacker-influenced Path object as a property; the resulting StackOverflowError interrupts that application.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Apache Commons Configuration 2.0 through 2.10.0 allows context-dependent attackers to crash an integrating application. The flattenIterator() method treats java.nio.file.Path as a nested Iterable and recursively flattens each derived Path without a termination guard. Reachability requires an application to add an attacker-influenced Path object as a property; the resulting StackOverflowError interrupts that application.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-29131
- Published
- Mar 21, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Commons Configuration
- Classifications
- CWE-787, T1499
- Attack vector
- Unavailable
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
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- Mar 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.0 <2.10.1
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