Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.apache.cxf:cxf-core package, versions [,3.5.11)[3.6.0,3.6.6)[4.0.0,4.0.7)[4.1.0,4.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHECXF-10755067
  • published17 Jul 2025
  • disclosed15 Jul 2025
  • creditMaugin Thomas

Introduced: 15 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-48795  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.cxf:cxf-core to version 3.5.11, 3.6.6, 4.0.7, 4.1.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.cxf:cxf-core is an an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through local storage system. Large stream based messages are stored as temporary files which can be exploited to cause a denial of service attack by triggering an out of memory exception. Additionally to the resource exhaustion, the issue of reading and then logging entire files without encryption can lead to exposure of sensitive credentials into logs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1