Application interruption via excessive configuration processing
Published May 9, 2025 · Updated May 13, 2025
Resource exhaustion in Apache Commons Configuration before 2.0.0 allows attackers to interrupt applications through untrusted configuration data. Apache identifies multiple loading and API-usage paths that consume excessive resources but does not disclose the affected classes, methods, or exact operations. Exposure requires an embedding application to load attacker-controlled configurations or expose attacker-controlled usage patterns, resulting in resource exhaustion and service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in Apache Commons Configuration before 2.0.0 allows attackers to interrupt applications through untrusted configuration data. Apache identifies multiple loading and API-usage paths that consume excessive resources but does not disclose the affected classes, methods, or exact operations. Exposure requires an embedding application to load attacker-controlled configurations or expose attacker-controlled usage patterns, resulting in resource exhaustion and service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-46392
- Published
- May 9, 2025
- Updated
- May 13, 2025
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Commons Configuration
- Classifications
- CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 9, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1 <2.0.0
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