CVE-2025-46392

Apache Commons Configuration: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption when loading untrusted configurations in 1.x

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: May 9, 2025
Updated: May 13, 2025
Reserved: Apr 23, 2025

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons Configuration 1.x.

There are a number of issues in Apache Commons Configuration 1.x that allow excessive resource consumption when loading untrusted configurations or using unexpected usage patterns. The Apache Commons Configuration team does not intend to fix these issues in 1.x. Apache Commons Configuration 1.x is still safe to use in scenario's where you only load trusted configurations.

Users that load untrusted configurations or give attackers control over usage patterns are recommended to upgrade to the 2.x version line, which fixes these issues. Apache Commons Configuration 2.x is not a drop-in replacement, but as it uses a separate Maven groupId and Java package namespace they can be loaded side-by-side, making it possible to do a gradual migration.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache Commons ConfigurationApache Software Foundation	1 to before 2.0.0Affected

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29131related
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29133related
https://lists.apache.org/thread/y1pl0mn3opz6kwkm873zshjdxq3dwq5svendor-advisory

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