Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload package, versions [,1.6.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMMONSFILEUPLOAD-10363252
  • published17 Jun 2025
  • disclosed16 Jun 2025
  • creditTERASOLUNA Framework Security Team

Introduced: 16 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2025-48976  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload to version 1.6.0 or higher.

Overview

commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload is a component that provides a simple yet flexible means of adding support for multipart file upload functionality to servlets and web applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling when processing multipart headers. An attacker can exhaust system resources by sending malicious requests with excessively large individual multipart headers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1