Route behavior alteration via mixed-case HTTP parameters
Published Mar 12, 2025 · Updated Mar 19, 2025
Header injection in affected Apache Camel releases allows remote attackers to alter route behavior through crafted HTTP parameters. DefaultHeaderFilterStrategy checks only specific case variants, so mixed-case Camel parameters are promoted into privileged message headers. Reachability requires an HTTP-exposed route using a susceptible downstream component; with camel-exec, an injected header can replace the configured executable and run an OS command.
Summary
What happened
Header injection in affected Apache Camel releases allows remote attackers to alter route behavior through crafted HTTP parameters. DefaultHeaderFilterStrategy checks only specific case variants, so mixed-case Camel parameters are promoted into privileged message headers. Reachability requires an HTTP-exposed route using a susceptible downstream component; with camel-exec, an injected header can replace the configured executable and run an OS command.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-29891
- Published
- Mar 12, 2025
- Updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Camel
- Classifications
- CWE-164, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 12, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 19, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=3.10.0 <3.22.4
- Affected versionversion=4.10.0 <4.10.2
- Affected versionversion=4.8.0 <4.8.5
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- Apache Camel CVE-2025-27636 and CVE-2025-29891 PoCfunctional · demonstrated
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