CVE-2025-23184: medium-severity vulnerability in Apache CXF
Apache CXF: Denial of Service vulnerability with temporary files
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 2.2%
A potential denial of service vulnerability is present in versions of Apache CXF before 3.5.10, 3.6.5 and 4.0.6. In some edge cases, the CachedOutputStream instances may not be closed and, if backed by temporary files, may fill up the file system (it applies to servers and clients).
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache CXFRelated CVEs — Apache CXF
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2020-13954—Apache CXF Reflected XSS in the services listing page via the styleSheetPathEPSS 40.9%CVE-2017-5653—CVE-2017-5653EPSS 11.2%CVE-2018-8039—CVE-2018-8039EPSS 8.5%CVE-2016-6812—CVE-2016-6812EPSS 7.5%CVE-2016-8739—CVE-2016-8739EPSS 7.3%CVE-2021-30468—Apache CXF Denial of service vulnerability in parsing JSON via JsonMapObjectReaderWriterEPSS 7.0%
References
https://lists.apache.org/thread/lfs8l63rnctnj2skfrxyys7v8fgnt122https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250214-0003/https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-23184-detect-apache-cxf-vulnerabilityhttps://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-23184-mitigate-apache-cxf-vulnerabilityhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/20/3